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Paper, 'Memoire contenant quelques observations sur la generation du Tripoli [Memoir containing some observations on the generation of Tripoli] by Martin Hubner

Reference number: L&P/3/391

Date: 19 June 1759

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8 pages in French and 8 pages in English

Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of some observations relating to the production of the Terra Tripolitana, or Tripoli. Humbly addressed to the Royal Society of London, by Martin Hubner, Fellow of the Royal Society Professor of History in the University of Copenhagen, and Member of the Royal Academy of inscriptions and belles lettres of Paris. translated from the French, by Emanuel Mendes da Costa, F. R. S'

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L&P/3/391
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19 June 1759
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17 pages
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Martin Hubner

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Martin Hubner, Paper, 'Memoire contenant quelques observations sur la generation du Tripoli [Memoir containing some observations on the generation of Tripoli] by Martin Hubner, 19 June 1759, L&P/3/391, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_391/paper-memoire-contenant-quelques-observations-sur-la-generation-du-tripoli-memoir-containing-some-observations-on-the-generation-of-tripoli-by-martin-hubner, accessed on 24 March 2025

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