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Paper, 'The present air temperatures in Italy and that of seventeen centuries ago' by Daines Barrington

Reference number: L&P/5/11

Date: 12 January 1768

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An investigation of the difference between the present temperature of the air in Italy and some other countries, and what it was seventeen centuries ago: In a letter to William Watson M. D. F. R. S. by the Honourable Daines Barrington F. R. S''

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L&P/5/11
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12 January 1768
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16 pages
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Daines Barrington, Paper, 'The present air temperatures in Italy and that of seventeen centuries ago' by Daines Barrington, 12 January 1768, L&P/5/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_11/paper-the-present-air-temperatures-in-italy-and-that-of-seventeen-centuries-ago-by-daines-barrington, accessed on 12 December 2024

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