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Letter, 'Of the earthquake at Leghorn from 16 to 27 January 1742' from Fremond Calmad, communicated by James Jurin

Reference number: L&P/1/83

Date: 17 February 1742

Description

Contains some observations made by the most Reverend Signor Pasqual Pedini, Principal of the Clergy of the most Eminent College of the Said City.

Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter written to the most Reverend Father D. Cla. Fremond Calmad, publick Professor in the University of Pisa, giving an account of the earthquakes felt in Leghorn, from the 16th to the 27th of January 1742. With some observations made by the most Reverend Sig. Pasqual R. Pedini, principal of the clergy of the most eminent college of the said city'.

Read 8 April 1742.

Reference number
L&P/1/83
Earliest possible date
17 February 1742
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
6 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of the earthquake at Leghorn from 16 to 27 January 1742' from Fremond Calmad, communicated by James Jurin, 17 February 1742, L&P/1/83, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_83/letter-of-the-earthquake-at-leghorn-from-16-to-27-january-1742-from-fremond-calmad-communicated-by-james-jurin, accessed on 25 March 2025

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