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Letter, 'A dissertation on the nature of evaporation and on several phenomena of air, water and of boiling liquors' from Hugh Hamilton to Charles Dodgson

Reference number: L&P/4/267

Date: 05 March 1765

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Subject: Chemsitry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A dissertation on the nature of evaporation and several phaenomena of air, water, and boiling liquors: In a letter to the Rev. Charles Dodgson, D.D. F. R. S. from the Rev. Hugh Hamilton, D.D. F. R. S. Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Dublin'

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Reference number
L&P/4/267
Earliest possible date
05 March 1765
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Ink on paper
Page extent
33 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Hugh Hamilton

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Hugh Hamilton, Letter, 'A dissertation on the nature of evaporation and on several phenomena of air, water and of boiling liquors' from Hugh Hamilton to Charles Dodgson, 05 March 1765, L&P/4/267, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_267/letter-a-dissertation-on-the-nature-of-evaporation-and-on-several-phenomena-of-air-water-and-of-boiling-liquors-from-hugh-hamilton-to-charles-dodgson, accessed on 14 January 2025

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