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Reference numberL&P/5/213
LevelItem
TitleLetter, 'Of the manner in which the Chinese heat their rooms' by Stephen de Vismes and Gramont to Matthew Maty
Date22 October 1769
Description7 pages in French and 16 pages in English.

Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Mr. Stephen de Visme to Mathew Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S. containing an account of the manner, in which the Chinese heat their rooms'

Read 31 January 1771
LanguageFrench
Extent23p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionInk on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1771.0007
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA4514Maty; Matthew (1718 - 1776)1718 - 1776
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