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"Result"

Catalogue reference: HY/1/16

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Reference
HY/1/16
Title
"Result"
Date
n.d. [1771-1783]
Description

21 pages of notes made by Henry Cavendish, paginated P1-P21. The record also contains two loose sheets of computations, one paginated P23.
The record is enclosed by a covering page on which is written a note by William Snow Harris: "No 16 [crossed out with red pen and replaced with "16"] Enumeration of Results of Inquiries". Below the note is written in pencil "on capacities referred to No 9 1772 & 1773".

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Devonshire Collection Archives, Chatsworth
Former department reference
I/16
Physical description
11 sheets
Publication note(s)
Published in full (excepting loose sheets) in Maxwell 1879, p344-58. Similarly republished in Thorpe 1921 Vol I, pp335-48.
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/7ebfaa77-3aec-40a1-8d82-5063588db332/

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HY/1

Papers on electricity

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"Result"