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Subject: Geology/Chemistry

Read 16 April 1741

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L&P/1/79
Earliest possible date
1741
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
15 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

William Brownrigg

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William Brownrigg, Paper, 'Of damps, parts I and II. Some observations of the several damps in the Coal Mines near Whitehaven' by William Brownrigg, 1741, L&P/1/79, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_79/paper-of-damps-parts-i-and-ii-some-observations-of-the-several-damps-in-the-coal-mines-near-whitehaven-by-william-brownrigg, accessed on 16 July 2025

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