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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extract of a letter from the Abbé Nollet, F. R. S. &c. to Charles Duke of Richmond, F. R. S. accompanying an examination of certain phænomena in electricity, published in Italy, by the same, and translated from the French by Mr. Watson, F. R. S'

Read 29 March 1750

Reference number
L&P/2/74
Earliest possible date
1750
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
28 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Jean Antoine Nollet

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Jean Antoine Nollet, Paper, 'Of a paper on electricity' by Jean Antoine Nollet, 1750, L&P/2/74, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_74/paper-of-a-paper-on-electricity-by-jean-antoine-nollet, accessed on 20 June 2025

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