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Paper, 'Memoire sur la partie meteologique des refractions [Memoir on the meteorological part of the refractions]' by Jean Andre De Luc

Reference number: L&P/7/82

Date: 1779

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41 pages in French and 92 pages in English.

Subject: Meteorology/Physics

Read 17 and 24 December 1779 and 14 January 1779

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L&P/7/82
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1779
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Ink on paper
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133 pages
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Jean Andre De Luc

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Jean Andre De Luc, Paper, 'Memoire sur la partie meteologique des refractions [Memoir on the meteorological part of the refractions]' by Jean Andre De Luc, 1779, L&P/7/82, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_82/paper-memoire-sur-la-partie-meteologique-des-refractions-memoir-on-the-meteorological-part-of-the-refractions-by-jean-andre-de-luc, accessed on 14 November 2025

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