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Paper, 'Experiments on Rathbone-place water' by Henry Cavendish

Reference number: L&P/4/369

Date: 11 December 1766

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments on Rathbone-place water'

Read 19 February 1767

Reference number
L&P/4/369
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11 December 1766
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Ink on paper
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27 pages
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Manuscript

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Henry Cavendish

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Henry Cavendish, Paper, 'Experiments on Rathbone-place water' by Henry Cavendish, 11 December 1766, L&P/4/369, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_369/paper-experiments-on-rathbone-place-water-by-henry-cavendish, accessed on 13 October 2024

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