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Paper, 'Remarks on Beccaria's letter (L&P/3/420)' by Benjamin Franklin

Reference number: L&P/3/422

Date: 1760

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments in electricity : In a letter from Father Beccaria, Professor of Experimental Philosophy at Turin, to Benjamin Franklin, L. L. D. F. R. S.'

Read 14 February 1760

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L&P/3/422
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1760
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Ink on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin, Paper, 'Remarks on Beccaria's letter (L&P/3/420)' by Benjamin Franklin, 1760, L&P/3/422, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_422/paper-remarks-on-beccarias-letter-lp3420-by-benjamin-franklin, accessed on 14 December 2024

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