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Letter, 'Of the manner in which the Chinese heat their rooms' by Stephen de Vismes and Gramont to Matthew Maty

Reference number: L&P/5/213

Date: 22 October 1769

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7 pages in French and 16 pages in English.

Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Mr. Stephen de Visme to Mathew Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S. containing an account of the manner, in which the Chinese heat their rooms'

Read 31 January 1771

Reference number
L&P/5/213
Earliest possible date
22 October 1769
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
23 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of the manner in which the Chinese heat their rooms' by Stephen de Vismes and Gramont to Matthew Maty, 22 October 1769, L&P/5/213, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_213/letter-of-the-manner-in-which-the-chinese-heat-their-rooms-by-stephen-de-vismes-and-gramont-to-matthew-maty, accessed on 14 October 2024

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