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Letter, 'Recueil des experiences faites a Venise sur la medicine electrique [List of experiences made in Venice on electric medicine] from Francisco Bianchini' to the Royal Society, by William Watson

Reference number: L&P/2/274

Date: 1752

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Subject: Medicine

The account of Bianchini's experiment was sent to the Royal Society by the Abbé Nollet and this letter by William Watson presents it formally for publication in the Philosophical Transactions.
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of Dr. Bianchini's Recueil d’experiences faites à Venise sur le medicine electrique'

Read 12 March 1752

Reference number
L&P/2/274
Earliest possible date
1752
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
8 pages
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Manuscript

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William Watson

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William Watson, Letter, 'Recueil des experiences faites a Venise sur la medicine electrique [List of experiences made in Venice on electric medicine] from Francisco Bianchini' to the Royal Society, by William Watson, 1752, L&P/2/274, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_274/letter-recueil-des-experiences-faites-a-venise-sur-la-medicine-electrique-list-of-experiences-made-in-venice-on-electric-medicine-from-francisco-bianchini-to-the-royal-society-by-william-watson, accessed on 09 February 2025

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