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Letter, 'Of the great frost at Glasgow, January 1780' from Patrick Wilson to Nevil Maskelyne

Reference number: L&P/7/152

Date: 28 May 1780

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a most extraordinary degree of cold at Glasgow in January last; together with some new experiments and observations on the comparative temperature of hoar-frost and the air near to it, made at the MacFarlane Observatory belonging to the college. In a letter from Patrick Wilson, M.A. to the Rev. Nevil Maskelyne, D.D. F.R.S. and Astronomer Royal'

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Reference number
L&P/7/152
Earliest possible date
28 May 1780
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Ink on paper
Page extent
16 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of the great frost at Glasgow, January 1780' from Patrick Wilson to Nevil Maskelyne, 28 May 1780, L&P/7/152, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_152/letter-of-the-great-frost-at-glasgow-january-1780-from-patrick-wilson-to-nevil-maskelyne, accessed on 02 December 2024

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