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Letter, 'On electricity and thunderstorms' from Thorbern Olaf Bergman to Benjamin Wilson

Reference number: L&P/4/154

Date: 20 November 1762

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations in electricity and on a thunder-storm: In a letter from Mr. Torbern Bergman, to Mr. Benjamin Wilson, F. R. S. Acad. Reg. Upsal. Soc'

Read 14 April 1763

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L&P/4/154
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20 November 1762
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Torbern Olof Bergman

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Torbern Olof Bergman, Letter, 'On electricity and thunderstorms' from Thorbern Olaf Bergman to Benjamin Wilson, 20 November 1762, L&P/4/154, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_154/letter-on-electricity-and-thunderstorms-from-thorbern-olaf-bergman-to-benjamin-wilson, accessed on 07 June 2026

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