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Paper, 'Of some encrushed human bones in the villa Ludovisiae at Rome' by Martin Folkes

Reference number: L&P/1/434

Date: 04 December 1745

Description

Contains plate.

Subject: Antiquities

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of some human bones incrusted with stone, now in the Villa Ludovisia at Rome: communicated to the Royal Society by the President, with a drawing of the same'

Read 12 December 1745

Reference number
L&P/1/434
Earliest possible date
04 December 1745
Physical description
Ink on paper with plate
Page extent
5 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Martin Folkes

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Martin Folkes, Paper, 'Of some encrushed human bones in the villa Ludovisiae at Rome' by Martin Folkes, 04 December 1745, L&P/1/434, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_434/paper-of-some-encrushed-human-bones-in-the-villa-ludovisiae-at-rome-by-martin-folkes, accessed on 11 October 2024

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