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Paper, 'Analysis of the water of the Dead Sea' by Charles Perry

Reference number: L&P/1/58

Date: 1741

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Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments, by way of analysis, upon the water of the dead sea; upon the hot spring near Tiberiades; and upon the hammam pharoan water'.

Read 25 February 1741.

Reference number
L&P/1/58
Earliest possible date
1741
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
8 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Analysis of the water of the Dead Sea' by Charles Perry, 1741, L&P/1/58, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_58/paper-analysis-of-the-water-of-the-dead-sea-by-charles-perry, accessed on 10 October 2024

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