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Paper, 'Of double refraction in crystals' by Giovanni Battista Beccaria

Reference number: L&P/4/102

Date: 1762

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the double refrac­tions in crystals; by Father John Beccaria, Professor of Experimental Philosophy at Turin'

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Reference number
L&P/4/102
Earliest possible date
1762
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7 pages
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Manuscript

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Giovanni Battista Beccaria

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Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Paper, 'Of double refraction in crystals' by Giovanni Battista Beccaria, 1762, L&P/4/102, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_102/paper-of-double-refraction-in-crystals-by-giovanni-battista-beccaria, accessed on 15 March 2025

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