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Paper, 'An attempt to account for the universal deluge' by Edward King

Reference number: L&P/4/359

Date: 24 September 1766

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Subject: Geography

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An attempt to account for the universal deluge'

Read 22 January 1767

Reference number
L&P/4/359
Earliest possible date
24 September 1766
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Ink on paper
Page extent
33 pages
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Manuscript

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Edward King

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Edward King, Paper, 'An attempt to account for the universal deluge' by Edward King, 24 September 1766, L&P/4/359, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_359/paper-an-attempt-to-account-for-the-universal-deluge-by-edward-king, accessed on 13 November 2024

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