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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the mutual relations of the vital and physical forces'.

Received and read by the Royal Society on 20 June 1850.

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 5, 1851.

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PT/39/8
Earliest possible date
1850
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Ink on paper
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54 pages
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Manuscript

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William Benjamin Carpenter

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William Benjamin Carpenter, Paper, 'On the mutual relations of the vital and physical forces' by William B [Benjamin] Carpenter, 1850, PT/39/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_39_8/paper-on-the-mutual-relations-of-the-vital-and-physical-forces-by-william-b-benjamin-carpenter, accessed on 20 March 2025

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