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Description

Fifteen pages in Latin and six pages of English translation. Contains three plates with eight figures.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Regiæ Societati anglicanæ scientiarum quædam electricitatis recens observata exhibet Jo. Henricus Winkler, Gr. & Lat. Literarum Prof. Publ. Ordin. & Academiæ Lipsiensis h. t. Rector'

Read 4 April 1745

Reference number
L&P/1/383
Earliest possible date
1745
Physical description
Ink on paper and three plates
Page extent
24 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'De electrictate' by Johann Heinrich Winkler, 1745, L&P/1/383, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_383/paper-de-electrictate-by-johann-heinrich-winkler, accessed on 10 July 2026

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