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Paper, 'Observations relative to the near and distant sight of different persons' by James Ware

Reference number: PT/7/4

Date: 1812

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Observations relative to the near and distant sight of different persons'.

Read 19 November 1812.

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/7/4
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1812
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Ink on paper
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35 pages
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Manuscript

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James Ware

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James Ware, Paper, 'Observations relative to the near and distant sight of different persons' by James Ware, 1812, PT/7/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_7_4/paper-observations-relative-to-the-near-and-distant-sight-of-different-persons-by-james-ware, accessed on 08 December 2024

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