'Remarques sur la Peste de Copenhagen'
Reference number: RBO/9/107
Date: 1712
Description
Paper brought by Mr Chamberlayne on the plague at Copenhagen which began in the beginning of July 1711 and decreased by September the same year. There were 60,000 inhabitants before the plague. It was thought that about 2,000 were born every year and about the same number died each year; it was thought that the plague killed 25,000 people.
Read to the Royal Society on 11 December 1712
- Reference number
- RBO/9/107
- Earliest possible date
- 1712
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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'Remarques sur la Peste de Copenhagen', 1712, RBO/9/107, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_9_107/remarques-sur-la-peste-de-copenhagen, accessed on 07 November 2025
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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 9, copies of papers communicated 1699-1707
1699-1707 Reference number: RBO/9
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