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Letter, 'Of an improved barometer' from Edward Spry to James Douglas

Reference number: L&P/4/253

Date: 28 February 1765

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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a new improvement of the portable barometer. By Edward Spry, M.D. of Totness, Devon. In a letter to the Right Honourable James Earl of Morton, President of the Royal Society'

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Reference number
L&P/4/253
Earliest possible date
28 February 1765
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of an improved barometer' from Edward Spry to James Douglas, 28 February 1765, L&P/4/253, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_253/letter-of-an-improved-barometer-from-edward-spry-to-james-douglas, accessed on 07 December 2024

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