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Paper, 'Description of a thermometrical barometer for measuring altitudes' by Rev Francis John Hyde Wollaston

Reference number: PT/11/13

Date: 01 March 1817

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Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/73/6/9.

Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Description of a thermometrical barometer for measuring altitudes'.

Written by Wollaston in South Weald. Read 6 March 1817.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.

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PT/11/13
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01 March 1817
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Ink on paper
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14 pages
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Manuscript

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Francis John Hyde Wollaston

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Francis John Hyde Wollaston, Paper, 'Description of a thermometrical barometer for measuring altitudes' by Rev Francis John Hyde Wollaston, 01 March 1817, PT/11/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_11_13/paper-description-of-a-thermometrical-barometer-for-measuring-altitudes-by-rev-francis-john-hyde-wollaston, accessed on 16 September 2024

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