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Letter, 'Of discoveries at Herculanaeum' from Camillo Paderni to Thomas Hollis

Reference number: L&P/3/5

Date: 10 September 1754

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Subject: Archaeology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extracts of two letters to Thomas Hollis, Esq; concerning the late discoveries at Herculaneum. Extract of a letter from Camillo Paderni dated at Naples, January 1755'

Read 10 April 1755

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L&P/3/5
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10 September 1754
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Camillo Paderni

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Camillo Paderni, Letter, 'Of discoveries at Herculanaeum' from Camillo Paderni to Thomas Hollis, 10 September 1754, L&P/3/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_5/letter-of-discoveries-at-herculanaeum-from-camillo-paderni-to-thomas-hollis, accessed on 14 December 2024

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