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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An extract, by Mr. Paul Rolli, F. R. S. of an Italian treatise, written by the Reverend Joseph Bianchini, a prebend in the city of Verona; upon the death of the countess Cornelia Zangári & Bandi, of Ceséna. To which are subjoined accounts of the death of Jo Hitchell, who was burned to death by lightning; and of Grace Pett at Ipswich, whose body was consumed to a Coal'

Read 20 June 1745

Reference number
L&P/1/405
Earliest possible date
1745
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Of the woman burnt to ashes at Ipswich' by R Love, 1745, L&P/1/405, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_405/paper-of-the-woman-burnt-to-ashes-at-ipswich-by-r-love, accessed on 13 March 2026

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