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Paper, 'Electrical experiments - thunder clouds' by John Canton

Reference number: L&P/2/458

Date: 1753

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Electrical experiments, with an at­tempt to account for their several phænomena; together with some observations on thunder-clouds'

Read 6 December 1753

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L&P/2/458
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1753
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12 pages
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John Canton

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John Canton, Paper, 'Electrical experiments - thunder clouds' by John Canton, 1753, L&P/2/458, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_458/paper-electrical-experiments-thunder-clouds-by-john-canton, accessed on 21 April 2025

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