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Paper, 'About the injury to Lostwithiel church steeple by lightning' by John Smeaton

Reference number: L&P/3/235

Date: 1757

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the effects of lightning upon the steeple and church of Lestwithiel, Cornwall; in a letter to The Right Honourable the Earl of Macclesfield, President of the R. S. By Mr. John Smeaton, F. R. S'

Read 21 April 1757

Reference number
L&P/3/235
Earliest possible date
1757
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Ink on paper
Page extent
8 pages
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Manuscript

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John Smeaton

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John Smeaton, Paper, 'About the injury to Lostwithiel church steeple by lightning' by John Smeaton, 1757, L&P/3/235, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_235/paper-about-the-injury-to-lostwithiel-church-steeple-by-lightning-by-john-smeaton, accessed on 17 March 2026

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