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Letter, 'On electric fire' from C Gros de Bozes to M de Maireau

Reference number: L&P/1/398

Date: 1745

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Abstract of a letter from Monsieur De Bozes, Professor of Experimental Philosophy, at the Academy of Wirtemberg, to Monsieur De Maizau. Communicated by Mr. Baker from Mr. Ellis, and translated out of the Latin by Mr. Baker'

Read 14 March 1745

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L&P/1/398
Earliest possible date
1745
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Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'On electric fire' from C Gros de Bozes to M de Maireau, 1745, L&P/1/398, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_398/letter-on-electric-fire-from-c-gros-de-bozes-to-m-de-maireau, accessed on 20 June 2025

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