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Letter, 'Heat diminishes the attraction of gravitation' from George Fordyce to Joseph Banks

Reference number: L&P/8/136

Date: 24 February 1785

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of some experiments on the loss of weight in bodies on being melted or heated. In a letter from George Fordyce, M.D. F.R.S. to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. P.R.S''

Read 28 April 1785

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L&P/8/136
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24 February 1785
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Ink on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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George Fordyce

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George Fordyce, Letter, 'Heat diminishes the attraction of gravitation' from George Fordyce to Joseph Banks, 24 February 1785, L&P/8/136, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_136/letter-heat-diminishes-the-attraction-of-gravitation-from-george-fordyce-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 21 April 2025

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