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'Observations on a Treatise wrote by Monsieur Helvetius of Paris design'd to prove that the Lungs do not divide and expand the Blood, but on the contrary cool and condense it' by Frank Nicholls

Reference number: RBO/14/64

Date: 1729

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Read to the Royal Society on 6 November 1729

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RBO/14/64
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1729
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6 pages
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Manuscript

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'Observations on a Treatise wrote by Monsieur Helvetius of Paris design'd to prove that the Lungs do not divide and expand the Blood, but on the contrary cool and condense it' by Frank Nicholls, 1729, RBO/14/64, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_14_64/observations-on-a-treatise-wrote-by-monsieur-helvetius-of-paris-designd-to-prove-that-the-lungs-do-not-divide-and-expand-the-blood-but-on-the-contrary-cool-and-condense-it-by-frank-nicholls, accessed on 18 January 2026

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