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Letter, 'On the repetition of Frankin's Philadelphia experiment at St Germain [English translation]' from Guillaume Mazeas to Stephen Hales

Reference number: L&P/2/329

Date: 20 May 1752

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Letters of the Abbé Mazeas, F. R. S. to the Rev. Stephen Hales, D. D, F. R. S. concerning the success of the late experi­ments in France. Translated from the French by James Parsons, M. D. F. R. S'

Read 23 November 1752

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L&P/2/329
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20 May 1752
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Guillaume Mazeas

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Guillaume Mazeas, Letter, 'On the repetition of Frankin's Philadelphia experiment at St Germain [English translation]' from Guillaume Mazeas to Stephen Hales, 20 May 1752, L&P/2/329, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_329/letter-on-the-repetition-of-frankins-philadelphia-experiment-at-st-germain-english-translation-from-guillaume-mazeas-to-stephen-hales, accessed on 15 June 2025

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