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Paper, 'Of the tides in the Adriatic, with letter from John Strange' by Giuseppe Toaldi

Reference number: L&P/6/220

Date: 19 November 1776

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extract of a letter from John Strange, Esquire, His Majesty's Resident at Venice, to Sir John Pringle, Bart. P.R.S.: with a letter to Mr. Strange from the Abbé Joseph Toaldo, Professor in the University of Padua, &c. giving an account of the tides in the Adriatic'

Read 6 February 1777

Reference number
L&P/6/220
Earliest possible date
19 November 1776
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
21 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Of the tides in the Adriatic, with letter from John Strange' by Giuseppe Toaldi, 19 November 1776, L&P/6/220, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_220/paper-of-the-tides-in-the-adriatic-with-letter-from-john-strange-by-giuseppe-toaldi, accessed on 18 July 2025

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