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Letter, 'Of experiments made to prove the electrification of ascending vapours' from Henry Eeles to Thomas Birch

Reference number: L&P/3/13

Date: 31 March 1755

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Letters of Henry Eeles, Esq; concerning the cause of the ascent of vapour and exhalation, and those of winds; and of the general phænomena of the weather and barometer. To the Rev. Tho. Birch, D. D. Secret. R. S'

Read 24 April 1755

Reference number
L&P/3/13
Earliest possible date
31 March 1755
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of experiments made to prove the electrification of ascending vapours' from Henry Eeles to Thomas Birch, 31 March 1755, L&P/3/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_13/letter-of-experiments-made-to-prove-the-electrification-of-ascending-vapours-from-henry-eeles-to-thomas-birch, accessed on 12 March 2026

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