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Appendix, 'Reasons for dissenting from the report of the committee appointed to consider Mr Wilson's paper' by Samuel Musgrave

Reference number: L&P/7/97

Date: 1779

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Subject: Physics

Original paper published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Reasons for dissenting from the report of the committee appointed to consider of Mr. Wilson's experiments; including remarks on some experiments exhibited by Mr. Nairne'

Read 25 June 1778

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L&P/7/97
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1779
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10 pages
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Manuscript

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Samuel Musgrave

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Samuel Musgrave, Appendix, 'Reasons for dissenting from the report of the committee appointed to consider Mr Wilson's paper' by Samuel Musgrave, 1779, L&P/7/97, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_97/appendix-reasons-for-dissenting-from-the-report-of-the-committee-appointed-to-consider-mr-wilsons-paper-by-samuel-musgrave, accessed on 10 February 2026

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