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Paper, 'Of a method of rendering very sendible the weakest natural or artificial electricity' by Alessandro Volta

Reference number: L&P/7/243

Date: 1782

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28 pages in English and 31 pages in Italian.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Del modo di render sensibilissima la più debole elettricità sia natural, sia artificiale'

Read 14 March 1782

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L&P/7/243
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Alessandro Volta

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Alessandro Volta, Paper, 'Of a method of rendering very sendible the weakest natural or artificial electricity' by Alessandro Volta, 1782, L&P/7/243, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_243/paper-of-a-method-of-rendering-very-sendible-the-weakest-natural-or-artificial-electricity-by-alessandro-volta, accessed on 09 June 2026

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