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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations and experiments on the light of bodies in a state of combustion'

Read 27 January 1785

Reference number
L&P/8/125
Earliest possible date
07 October 1784
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
27 pages
Format
Manuscript

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William Morgan

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William Morgan, Paper, 'On the light of bodies in a state of combustion' by William Morgan, 07 October 1784, L&P/8/125, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_125/paper-on-the-light-of-bodies-in-a-state-of-combustion-by-william-morgan, accessed on 15 October 2024

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