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Paper, 'Of some caustic parabolic speclums, prepared at Dresden by the late M Hoesen' by N M Wolfe

Reference number: L&P/5/63

Date: 09 November 1768

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4 pages in Latin, with 4 pages of English translation.

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Brevis narratio de structura et effectu speculorum causticorum parabolicorum à defuncto Dno Hoesen Dresdae elaboratorum, quae nunc a Dno Ehrard, sub arce Dresdensi habitante, possidentur'

Read 19 January 1769

Reference number
L&P/5/63
Earliest possible date
09 November 1768
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
7 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Of some caustic parabolic speclums, prepared at Dresden by the late M Hoesen' by N M Wolfe, 09 November 1768, L&P/5/63, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_63/paper-of-some-caustic-parabolic-speclums-prepared-at-dresden-by-the-late-m-hoesen-by-n-m-wolfe, accessed on 19 April 2026

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