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Letters, 'Discoveries on air' from Joseph Priestley

Reference number: L&P/6/120

Date: 24 May 1775

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of further discoveries in air. By the Rev. Joseph Priestley, LL.D. F.R.S. in letter to Sir John Pringle, Bart. P.R.S. and the Rev. Dr. Price, F.R.S'

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L&P/6/120
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24 May 1775
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Ink on paper
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13 pages
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Manuscript

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Joseph Priestley

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Joseph Priestley, Letters, 'Discoveries on air' from Joseph Priestley, 24 May 1775, L&P/6/120, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_120/letters-discoveries-on-air-from-joseph-priestley, accessed on 15 June 2026

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