Paper, 'A hole burnt in a mahogany table by the sun shining through a glass decanter of water' by Owen Salusbury Brereton
Reference number: L&P/4/379
Date: 1767
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Subject: Physics
Read 26 March 1767
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- 1767
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Owen Salusbury Brereton, Paper, 'A hole burnt in a mahogany table by the sun shining through a glass decanter of water' by Owen Salusbury Brereton, 1767, L&P/4/379, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_379/paper-a-hole-burnt-in-a-mahogany-table-by-the-sun-shining-through-a-glass-decanter-of-water-by-owen-salusbury-brereton, accessed on 18 July 2025
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