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Letter, 'On the temperature of the Bath-waters in September 1752' from John Canton to the Royal Society

Reference number: L&P/4/406

Date: 1767

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Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations on the heat of the bath and Bristol water'

Read 3 July 1767

Reference number
L&P/4/406
Earliest possible date
1767
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Ink on paper
Page extent
1 page
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'On the temperature of the Bath-waters in September 1752' from John Canton to the Royal Society, 1767, L&P/4/406, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_406/letter-on-the-temperature-of-the-bath-waters-in-september-1752-from-john-canton-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 12 July 2025

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