Paper, 'Report on the graduation of thermometers' by the Royal Society Commitee
Reference number: L&P/6/257
Date: 1777
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Subject: Scientific instruments
Contains the signatures of Henry Cavendish, William Heberden, Alexander Aubert, Jean Andre De Luc, Nevil Maskelyne, Samuel Horsley and Joseph Planta
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The report of the Committee appointed by the Royal Society to consider of the best method of adjusting the fixed points of thermometers; and of the precautions necessary to be used in making experiments with those instruments'
Read 19 June 1777
- Reference number
- L&P/6/257
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- 1777
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 42 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Henry Cavendish
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Henry Cavendish, William Heberden, Alexander Aubert, Jean Andre De Luc, Nevil Maskelyne, Samuel Horsley, Joseph Planta, Paper, 'Report on the graduation of thermometers' by the Royal Society Commitee, 1777, L&P/6/257, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_257/paper-report-on-the-graduation-of-thermometers-by-the-royal-society-commitee, accessed on 05 November 2024
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XXXVII. The report of the Committee appointed by the Royal Society to consider of the best method of adjusting the fixed points of thermometers; and of the precautions necessary to be used in making experiments with those instruments External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1777
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1777.0038
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Decade 6 of scientific letters and papers submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1773-1777 Reference number: L&P/6
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Henry Cavendish
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William Heberden
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Alexander Aubert
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Jean Andre De Luc
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Nevil Maskelyne
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Samuel Horsley
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Joseph Planta
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