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Paper, 'Of the vital and other involuntary motions of animals - an account of R.W.'s book' by Robert Whytt

Reference number: L&P/2/244

Date: 1751

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations and experiments upon animal bodies, digested in a philosophical analysis, or inquiry into the cause of voluntary muscular motion'

Read 12 December 1751

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L&P/2/244
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1751
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Ink on paper
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27 pages
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Manuscript

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Robert Whytt

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Robert Whytt, Paper, 'Of the vital and other involuntary motions of animals - an account of R.W.'s book' by Robert Whytt, 1751, L&P/2/244, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_244/paper-of-the-vital-and-other-involuntary-motions-of-animals-an-account-of-rws-book-by-robert-whytt, accessed on 03 October 2024

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