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Incomplete manuscript beginning on page 157. It comprises 104 manuscript pages and one plate showing Kopp's apparatus used for determining the specific heat of various solids.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Investigations of the specific heat of solid bodies'.

Received by the Royal Society on 16 April 1864. Read 12 May 1864.

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 13, 1864.

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PT/72/2
Earliest possible date
1864
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Ink on paper
Page extent
105 pages
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Manuscript

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Hermann Kopp

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Hermann Kopp, Paper, ['Investigations of the specific heat of solid bodies'] by [Hermann Kopp], 1864, PT/72/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_72_2/paper-investigations-of-the-specific-heat-of-solid-bodies-by-hermann-kopp, accessed on 14 January 2025

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