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Paper, 'Of the thunderstorm at Norwich on 13 July 1758' by Samuel Cooper

Reference number: L&P/3/355

Date: 1758

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactionas, as 'An account of a storm of thunder and lightning at Norwich, on the 13th of July 1758'

Read 15 February 1758

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L&P/3/355
Earliest possible date
1758
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Ink on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'Of the thunderstorm at Norwich on 13 July 1758' by Samuel Cooper, 1758, L&P/3/355, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_355/paper-of-the-thunderstorm-at-norwich-on-13-july-1758-by-samuel-cooper, accessed on 14 September 2026

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