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Letter, 'Experiment with a black-bulb thermometer' from Richard Watson to Matthew Maty

Reference number: L&P/5/320

Date: 18 September 1772

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of an experiment made with a thermometer, whose bulb was painted black, and exposed to the direct rays of the Sun: In a letter from Richard Watson, D. D. Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, and F. R. S. to Mathew Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S'

Read 10 December 1772

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L&P/5/320
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18 September 1772
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Ink on paper
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1 page
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Manuscript

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Richard Watson

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Richard Watson, Letter, 'Experiment with a black-bulb thermometer' from Richard Watson to Matthew Maty, 18 September 1772, L&P/5/320, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_320/letter-experiment-with-a-black-bulb-thermometer-from-richard-watson-to-matthew-maty, accessed on 17 March 2026

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