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Paper, 'Conjectures relative to the petrifications found in the Mount of St Peter, near Maestricht' by Petrus Camper

Reference number: L&P/9/6

Date: 1786

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Contains two plates.

Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Conjecture relative to the petrifactions found in St. Peter's Mountain, near Maestricht.'

Read 6 July 1786

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L&P/9/6
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1786
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Ink on paper and two plates
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12 pages
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Manuscript

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Peter Camper

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Peter Camper, Paper, 'Conjectures relative to the petrifications found in the Mount of St Peter, near Maestricht' by Petrus Camper, 1786, L&P/9/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_6/paper-conjectures-relative-to-the-petrifications-found-in-the-mount-of-st-peter-near-maestricht-by-petrus-camper, accessed on 16 September 2024

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