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Paper, 'Fire ball observed at sea' by Chalmers

Reference number: L&P/2/68

Date: 1749

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of an extraordinary fire-ball bursting at sea, communicated by Mr. Chalmers'

Read 22 March 1749

Reference number
L&P/2/68
Earliest possible date
1749
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Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'Fire ball observed at sea' by Chalmers, 1749, L&P/2/68, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_68/paper-fire-ball-observed-at-sea-by-chalmers, accessed on 15 March 2025

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