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Paper, 'Of thermometers for particular uses' by Charles Cavendish

Reference number: L&P/3/262

Date: 1757

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Contains two plates.

Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A description of some thermometers for particular uses'

Read 30 June 1757

Reference number
L&P/3/262
Earliest possible date
1757
Physical description
Ink on paper and two plates
Page extent
10 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Charles Cavendish

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Charles Cavendish, Paper, 'Of thermometers for particular uses' by Charles Cavendish, 1757, L&P/3/262, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_262/paper-of-thermometers-for-particular-uses-by-charles-cavendish, accessed on 08 May 2026

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