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Paper, 'Of the late discoveries at Herculaneum' by Camillo Paderni

Reference number: L&P/3/105

Date: 1756

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14 pages in Italian, with 23 pages of English translation.

Subject: Archaeology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the late discovories of antiquities at Herculaneum, &c. in two letters from Camillo Paderni, keeper of the Musæm Herculanei, to Thomas Hollis, Esq; translated from the Italian by Robert Watson, M. D. F. R. S'

Read 17 February 1756

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L&P/3/105
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1756
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37 pages
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Manuscript

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Camillo Paderni

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Camillo Paderni, Paper, 'Of the late discoveries at Herculaneum' by Camillo Paderni, 1756, L&P/3/105, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_105/paper-of-the-late-discoveries-at-herculaneum-by-camillo-paderni, accessed on 10 October 2024

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