Paper, 'An essay towards ascertaining the specific gravity of living men' by John Robertson

Reference number: L&P/3/207

Date: 1756

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An essay towards ascertaining the specific gravity of living men'

Read 27 January 1757

Reference number: L&P/3/207
Earliest possible date: 1756
Physical description: Ink on paper
Page extent: 4 pages
Format: Manuscript

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John Robertson, Paper, 'An essay towards ascertaining the specific gravity of living men' by John Robertson, 1756, L&P/3/207, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_207/paper-an-essay-towards-ascertaining-the-specific-gravity-of-living-men-by-john-robertson, accessed on 11 July 2025

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Date: 31st December 1757

DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1757.0006

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Letters and Papers of a scientific nature submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1741-1806 Reference number: L&P
Decade 3 of scientific letters and papers submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1755-1760 Reference number: L&P/3

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