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Paper, 'Observations and experiments on vision' by William Charles Wells

Reference number: PT/5/19

Date: 1811

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Observations and experiments on vision'.

Read 4 July 1811.

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 1, 1832.

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PT/5/19
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1811
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Ink on paper
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17 pages
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Manuscript

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William Charles Wells

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William Charles Wells, Paper, 'Observations and experiments on vision' by William Charles Wells, 1811, PT/5/19, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_5_19/paper-observations-and-experiments-on-vision-by-william-charles-wells, accessed on 11 July 2026

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