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Paper, 'Attempts to ascertain the temperature of the sea at great depths on the coasts of Lapland and Norway' by Charles Douglas

Reference number: L&P/5/153

Date: 09 November 1769

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the result of some attempts made to ascertain the temperature of the sea in great depths, near the coasts of Lapland and Norway; as also some anecdotes, collected in the former'

Read 8 February 1770

Reference number
L&P/5/153
Earliest possible date
09 November 1769
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Ink on paper
Page extent
6 pages
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Manuscript

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Charles Douglas

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Charles Douglas, Paper, 'Attempts to ascertain the temperature of the sea at great depths on the coasts of Lapland and Norway' by Charles Douglas, 09 November 1769, L&P/5/153, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_153/paper-attempts-to-ascertain-the-temperature-of-the-sea-at-great-depths-on-the-coasts-of-lapland-and-norway-by-charles-douglas, accessed on 20 June 2025

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