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Contains chart.

Subject: Scientific instruments

Read 18 March 1784

Reference number
L&P/8/66
Earliest possible date
1784
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Of the use to be made of the barometer' by Small, 1784, L&P/8/66, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_66/paper-of-the-use-to-be-made-of-the-barometer-by-small, accessed on 17 July 2026

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