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Letter, 'Of a fossil found at Dudley, Staffs' from Emanuel Mendes da Costa to Thomas Birch

Reference number: L&P/2/377

Date: 12 July 1753

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Subject: Archaeology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Letter relating to a theorem of Mr. Euler, of the Royal Academy of sciences at Berlin, and F. R. S. for correcting the aberrations in the object-glasses of refracting telescopes'

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L&P/2/377
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12 July 1753
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Emanuel Mendes da Costa

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Emanuel Mendes da Costa, Letter, 'Of a fossil found at Dudley, Staffs' from Emanuel Mendes da Costa to Thomas Birch, 12 July 1753, L&P/2/377, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_377/letter-of-a-fossil-found-at-dudley-staffs-from-emanuel-mendes-da-costa-to-thomas-birch, accessed on 10 December 2023

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