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Letter, 'An account of the electrical researches and the electrical machine of the late Gowin Knight' from John Fothergill to the Royal Society

Reference number: L&P/6/191

Date: 1776

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Subject: Phsyics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the magnetical machine contrived by the late Dr. Gowin Knight, F.R.S. and presented to The Royal Society, by John Fothergill, M.D. F.R.S'

Read 27 June 1776

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L&P/6/191
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1776
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Ink on paper
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14 pages
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John Fothergill

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John Fothergill, Letter, 'An account of the electrical researches and the electrical machine of the late Gowin Knight' from John Fothergill to the Royal Society, 1776, L&P/6/191, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_191/letter-an-account-of-the-electrical-researches-and-the-electrical-machine-of-the-late-gowin-knight-from-john-fothergill-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 13 October 2024

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