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Contains one plate.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'New experiments upon heat. By Colonel Sir Benjamin Thompson, Knt. F. R. S. In a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. P. R. S.'

Read 9 March 1786

Reference number
L&P/8/178
Earliest possible date
1786
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
37 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Benjamin Thompson

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Benjamin Thompson, Paper, 'New experiments on heat' by Benjamin Thompson, 1786, L&P/8/178, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_178/paper-new-experiments-on-heat-by-benjamin-thompson, accessed on 11 February 2026

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