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This Treatise, he says, was read before the Royal Academy of Sweden…
Quote byStephen Hales · 1677–1761
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Preface.
English (original)
This Treatise, he says, was read before the Royal Academy of Sweden the third day of April 1742. ...This was eleven Months after mine was laid before the Royal Society.
— Stephen Hales
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