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Letter, 'An account of Dr Gowin Knight's method of making artifical loadstones' from Benjamin Wilson to Joseph Banks

Reference number: L&P/7/70

Date: 01 December 1778

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of Dr. Knight's method of making artificial loadstones'

Read 17 December 1778

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L&P/7/70
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01 December 1778
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Benjamin Wilson

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Benjamin Wilson, Letter, 'An account of Dr Gowin Knight's method of making artifical loadstones' from Benjamin Wilson to Joseph Banks, 01 December 1778, L&P/7/70, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_70/letter-an-account-of-dr-gowin-knights-method-of-making-artifical-loadstones-from-benjamin-wilson-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 17 July 2026

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