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Description

Contains three plates.

Subject: Scientific instruments

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Description of an improved air-pump, and the account of some experiments made with it'

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Reference number
L&P/8/32
Earliest possible date
1783
Physical description
Ink on paper and three plates
Page extent
32 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Tiberius Cavallo

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Tiberius Cavallo, Paper, 'Description of an improved air pump' by Tiberius Cavallo, 1783, L&P/8/32, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_32/paper-description-of-an-improved-air-pump-by-tiberius-cavallo, accessed on 16 September 2024

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