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Paper, 'Whether there is a magnetism in bodies' by Charles Perry

Reference number: L&P/1/102

Date: 1742

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Subject: Physics

Read 27 May 1742

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L&P/1/102
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1742
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Ink on paper
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12 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'Whether there is a magnetism in bodies' by Charles Perry, 1742, L&P/1/102, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_102/paper-whether-there-is-a-magnetism-in-bodies-by-charles-perry, accessed on 21 January 2025

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