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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'On the degree of salubrity of the common air at sea, compared with that of the sea-shore, and that of places far removed from the sea'

Read 13 April 1780

Reference number
L&P/7/151
Earliest possible date
22 January 1780
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
18 pages
Format
Manuscript

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John Ingenhousz

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John Ingenhousz, Paper, 'On the degree of salubrity of the air at sea' by John Ingenhousz, 22 January 1780, L&P/7/151, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_151/paper-on-the-degree-of-salubrity-of-the-air-at-sea-by-john-ingenhousz, accessed on 08 July 2025

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