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Paper, 'Of the earthquake of March 8' by Thomas Burrat

Reference number: L&P/2/115

Date: 1750

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The President's report of the account given him by Tho. Burrat, Kensington, concerning the earthquake on March 8. last past'

Read 26 April 1750

Reference number
L&P/2/115
Earliest possible date
1750
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Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'Of the earthquake of March 8' by Thomas Burrat, 1750, L&P/2/115, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_115/paper-of-the-earthquake-of-march-8-by-thomas-burrat, accessed on 10 October 2024

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