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Paper, 'Electro-physiological researches. Physical and chemical phenomena of muscular contraction. Tenth series' by Sir Carlo Matteucci

Reference number: PT/57/1

Date: 01 April 1856

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24 manuscript pages including four figures. Also includes notice written to the secretary of the Royal Society dated 27 May 1856.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Electro-physiological researches. Physical and chemical phenomena of muscular contraction.— Tenth series. Part I'.

Written by Matteucci in Pise [Pisa, Italy]. Communicated by Michael Faraday. Received by the Royal Society on 12 June 1856. Read 19 June 1856.

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 8, 1857.

Reference number
PT/57/1
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01 April 1856
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Ink on paper
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27 pages
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Manuscript

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Carlo Matteucci

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Carlo Matteucci, Paper, 'Electro-physiological researches. Physical and chemical phenomena of muscular contraction. Tenth series' by Sir Carlo Matteucci, 01 April 1856, PT/57/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_57_1/paper-electro-physiological-researches-physical-and-chemical-phenomena-of-muscular-contraction-tenth-series-by-sir-carlo-matteucci, accessed on 12 December 2024

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