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Letter, 'Of lightning on occasion of the earthquake' from Henry Miles to Martin Folkes

Reference number: L&P/2/64

Date: 22 March 1750

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The Rev. H. Miles, D. D. & F. R. S. to the President, containing some additional observations to his former accounts'

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L&P/2/64
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22 March 1750
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Henry Miles

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Henry Miles, Letter, 'Of lightning on occasion of the earthquake' from Henry Miles to Martin Folkes, 22 March 1750, L&P/2/64, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_64/letter-of-lightning-on-occasion-of-the-earthquake-from-henry-miles-to-martin-folkes, accessed on 19 July 2026

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