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Letter, 'In answer to Pringle's letter' from Robert Whytt to John Pringle

Reference number: L&P/3/237

Date: 16 March 1757

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Subject: Correspondence

Read 21 April 1757

Reference number
L&P/3/237
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16 March 1757
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Ink on paper
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12 pages
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Manuscript

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Robert Whytt

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Robert Whytt, Letter, 'In answer to Pringle's letter' from Robert Whytt to John Pringle, 16 March 1757, L&P/3/237, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_237/letter-in-answer-to-pringles-letter-from-robert-whytt-to-john-pringle, accessed on 13 May 2025

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