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Paper, 'Prevention of ill effects of lightning, anent Captain Dibden's observations' by Benjamin Wilson

Reference number: L&P/4/227

Date: 02 July 1764

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter to the Marquis of Rockingham, with some observation on the effects of lightening'

Read 8 November 1764

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L&P/4/227
Earliest possible date
02 July 1764
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Ink on paper
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6 pages
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Manuscript

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Benjamin Wilson

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Benjamin Wilson, Paper, 'Prevention of ill effects of lightning, anent Captain Dibden's observations' by Benjamin Wilson, 02 July 1764, L&P/4/227, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_227/paper-prevention-of-ill-effects-of-lightning-anent-captain-dibdens-observations-by-benjamin-wilson, accessed on 15 June 2025

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