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Paper, 'Seconde memoire sur les mesures barometriques dans les mines [Second thesis on barometric measurements in mines]' by Jean Andre De Luc

Reference number: L&P/7/112

Date: 1779

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8 pages in French and 12 pages in English.

Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A second paper concerning some barometrical measure in the mines of the Hartz'

Read 10 June 1779

Reference number
L&P/7/112
Earliest possible date
1779
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Ink on paper
Page extent
20 pages
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Manuscript

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Jean Andre De Luc

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Jean Andre De Luc, Paper, 'Seconde memoire sur les mesures barometriques dans les mines [Second thesis on barometric measurements in mines]' by Jean Andre De Luc, 1779, L&P/7/112, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_112/paper-seconde-memoire-sur-les-mesures-barometriques-dans-les-mines-second-thesis-on-barometric-measurements-in-mines-by-jean-andre-de-luc, accessed on 19 January 2026

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