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Letter, 'Of extracting electricity from the atmosphere' from Jean Antoine Nollet to William Watson

Reference number: L&P/2/335

Date: 22 July 1752

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extracts of two letters of the Abbè Nollet, F. R. S. to Mr. William Watson, F. R. S. relating to the extracting electricity from the clouds. Translated from the French'

Read 14 December 1752

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L&P/2/335
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22 July 1752
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Jean Antoine Nollet

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Jean Antoine Nollet, Letter, 'Of extracting electricity from the atmosphere' from Jean Antoine Nollet to William Watson, 22 July 1752, L&P/2/335, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_335/letter-of-extracting-electricity-from-the-atmosphere-from-jean-antoine-nollet-to-william-watson, accessed on 17 January 2025

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