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Paper, 'Of a storm of lightning on 1 March 1774' by Nicholson

Reference number: L&P/6/47

Date: 1774

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a storm of lightning observed on the 1st of March, 1774, near Wakefield, in Yorkshire'

Read 14 April 1774

Reference number
L&P/6/47
Earliest possible date
1774
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Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'Of a storm of lightning on 1 March 1774' by Nicholson, 1774, L&P/6/47, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_47/paper-of-a-storm-of-lightning-on-1-march-1774-by-nicholson, accessed on 17 February 2026

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