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Letter, 'Of the change in the baths of Toplitz' from Joseph Stepling to James Short

Reference number: L&P/3/115

Date: 30 January 1756

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3 pages in Latin, with 2 pages of English translation.

Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An extraordinary and surprising agitation of the waters, though without any perceptible motion of the Earth, having been observed in various parts of this Island, both maritime and inland, on the same day, and chiefly about the time, that the more violent commotions of both Earth and waters so extensively affected many very distant parts of the Globe; the following accounts, relating to the former, have been transmitted to the Society; in which are specified the times and places when and where they h'

Read 26 February 1756

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L&P/3/115
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30 January 1756
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Ink on paper
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7 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of the change in the baths of Toplitz' from Joseph Stepling to James Short, 30 January 1756, L&P/3/115, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_115/letter-of-the-change-in-the-baths-of-toplitz-from-joseph-stepling-to-james-short, accessed on 08 September 2024

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