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Reference numberL&P/1/263
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'Of stones of a regular figure found at Bagneres' by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu
Date1743
Description6 pages in French and 16 pages of English translation.

Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Remarks on stones of a regular figure found near Bagneres in Gascony: With other observations, communicated by Monsieur Secondat de Montesquieu, of the Academy of Sciences of Bordeaux, in a letter to Martin Folkes, Esq; Pr. R. S'

Read 8 March 1743
Extent22p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionInk on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1744.0011
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA7849Montesquieu; Charles de Secondat (1689 - 1755); Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu1689 - 1755
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