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Paper, 'On a new kind of rain' by Count de Gioeni

Reference number: L&P/7/221

Date: 19 April 1781

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10 pages in Italian and 7 pages in English

Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Appendix. I. Account of a new kind of rain. Written by the Count de Gioeni, an inhabitant of the 3d region of Mount Etna;'

Read 8 November 1781

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L&P/7/221
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19 April 1781
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Ink on paper
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17 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'On a new kind of rain' by Count de Gioeni, 19 April 1781, L&P/7/221, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_221/paper-on-a-new-kind-of-rain-by-count-de-gioeni, accessed on 11 November 2025

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