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Letter, 'On an artificial spring of water' by Erasmus Darwin

Reference number: L&P/8/102

Date: 16 July 1784

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of an artificial spring of water'

Read 4 Novemebr 1784

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L&P/8/102
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16 July 1784
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17 pages
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Erasmus Darwin

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Erasmus Darwin, Letter, 'On an artificial spring of water' by Erasmus Darwin, 16 July 1784, L&P/8/102, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_102/letter-on-an-artificial-spring-of-water-by-erasmus-darwin, accessed on 08 February 2025

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