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Paper, 'Observations on the heat of the ground on Mount Vesuvius' by John Howard

Reference number: L&P/5/208

Date: 1771

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Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations on the heat of the ground on mount Vesuvius:'

Read 17 January 1771

Reference number
L&P/5/208
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1771
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Ink on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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John Howard

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John Howard, Paper, 'Observations on the heat of the ground on Mount Vesuvius' by John Howard, 1771, L&P/5/208, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_208/paper-observations-on-the-heat-of-the-ground-on-mount-vesuvius-by-john-howard, accessed on 12 May 2026

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