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Letter, 'Of some new electrical experiments' from Giovanni Battista Beccaria to Thomas Birch

Reference number: L&P/4/300

Date: 1766

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Novorum quorumdam in re electrica experimentorum specimen, quod Regiae Londinensi Societati mittebat die 14 Januarii, Anni 1766. Joannes Baptista Beccaria ex Scholis Piis, & R. S. Soc'

Read 10 July 1766

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L&P/4/300
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1766
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2 pages
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Giovanni Battista Beccaria

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Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Letter, 'Of some new electrical experiments' from Giovanni Battista Beccaria to Thomas Birch, 1766, L&P/4/300, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_300/letter-of-some-new-electrical-experiments-from-giovanni-battista-beccaria-to-thomas-birch, accessed on 26 April 2025

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