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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the phænomena of elec­tricity in vacuo, with some observations thereupon'

Read 20 February 1752

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L&P/2/268
Earliest possible date
1752
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Ink on paper
Page extent
16 pages
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Manuscript

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William Watson

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William Watson, Letter, 'Of phenomena of electricty in vacuo' by William Watson, 1752, L&P/2/268, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_268/letter-of-phenomena-of-electricty-in-vacuo-by-william-watson, accessed on 03 November 2024

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