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RefNoL&P/2/565
LevelItem
TitleLetter, 'Of Mount Taborg in Sweden (iron ore)' from Petrus Ascanius to Peter Collinson
Date6 December 1754
Description4 pages in Latin and 4 pages in English.

Subject: Geography

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a mountain of iron ore, at Taberg in Sweden, in a letter to Mr. Peter Collinson, F. R. S. By Peter Ascanius, M. D. Translated from the Latin by Mr. Emanuel Mendes de Costa, F. R. S.'

Read 6 February 1755
LanguageLatin
Extent8p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1755.0009
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7938Ascanius; Peter (fl 1755)fl 1755
NA8428Collinson; Peter (1694 - 1768)1694 - 1768
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