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Paper, 'An attempt to comparer and connect [the indications of J W's pyrometer] with those of the mercurial thermometer' by Josiah Wedgwood

Reference number: L&P/8/79

Date: 1784

Description

Contains three plates.

Subject: Scientific instruments

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An attempt to compare and connect the thermometer for strong fire, described in Vol. LXXII. of the Philosophical Transactions, with the common mercurial ones.'

Read 13 May 1784

Reference number
L&P/8/79
Earliest possible date
1784
Physical description
Ink on paper and three plates
Page extent
31 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Josiah Wedgwood

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Josiah Wedgwood, Paper, 'An attempt to comparer and connect [the indications of J W's pyrometer] with those of the mercurial thermometer' by Josiah Wedgwood, 1784, L&P/8/79, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_79/paper-an-attempt-to-comparer-and-connect-the-indications-of-j-ws-pyrometer-with-those-of-the-mercurial-thermometer-by-josiah-wedgwood, accessed on 10 December 2024

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