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J G Scheuchzer's account of a book by Dominic Bottoni entitled 'de immani Trinacriae terrae-motu idea historica-physica in qua non solum telluris concusciones transactiae recensentur, sed novissimae'

Reference number: RBO/12/42

Date: 1724

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Study of the weather and earth in Sicily and about the eruption of Mount Etna in 1717
Read to the Royal Society on 19 November 1724

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RBO/12/42
Earliest possible date
1724
Page extent
11 pages
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Manuscript

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J G Scheuchzer's account of a book by Dominic Bottoni entitled 'de immani Trinacriae terrae-motu idea historica-physica in qua non solum telluris concusciones transactiae recensentur, sed novissimae', 1724, RBO/12/42, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_12_42/j-g-scheuchzers-account-of-a-book-by-dominic-bottoni-entitled-de-immani-trinacriae-terrae-motu-idea-historica-physica-in-qua-non-solum-telluris-concusciones-transactiae-recensentur-sed-novissimae, accessed on 04 December 2025

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