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'Sir Robert Moray's Story of persons killed with Subterraneous Damps'

Reference number: RBO/2i/25

Date: 14 December 1662

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Damp in coal-pits which have produced fatal consequences - Lord Sinclair's coalpit in Scotland
Read to the Royal Society on 14 January 1662
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 1 (1665), p 44

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RBO/2i/25
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14 December 1662
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Robert Moray

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Robert Moray, 'Sir Robert Moray's Story of persons killed with Subterraneous Damps', 14 December 1662, RBO/2i/25, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_2i_25/sir-robert-morays-story-of-persons-killed-with-subterraneous-damps, accessed on 19 September 2024

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