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Letter, 'Observations du barometre faites au Hartz, dans les mines de Clausthal [Observations of the barometer made at Hartz, in the Clausthal mines]' from Jean Andre De Luc to John Pringle [French original]

Reference number: L&P/6/239

Date: 08 February 1777

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Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Barometrical observations on the depth of the mines in the Hartz. My John Andrew de Luc, F.R.S. In a letter to Sir John Pringle, P.R.S'

Read 20 March 1777

Reference number
L&P/6/239
Earliest possible date
08 February 1777
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Ink on paper
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9 pages
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Manuscript

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Jean Andre De Luc

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Jean Andre De Luc, Letter, 'Observations du barometre faites au Hartz, dans les mines de Clausthal [Observations of the barometer made at Hartz, in the Clausthal mines]' from Jean Andre De Luc to John Pringle [French original], 08 February 1777, L&P/6/239, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_239/letter-observations-du-barometre-faites-au-hartz-dans-les-mines-de-clausthal-observations-of-the-barometer-made-at-hartz-in-the-clausthal-mines-from-jean-andre-de-luc-to-john-pringle-french-original, accessed on 20 June 2025

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