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REPLY1850

Aërostation

By COLL. ROYAL SOC.

The account published by Lunardi of his aërial voyage, alluded to by M., is, in the copy I have seen, entitled "An Account of the First Aërial Voyage in Britain, in a series of letters to his guardian, the Chevalier Gherardo Compagni, written under the impressions of the various events that affected the undertaking, by Vicent Lunardi, Esq., Secretary to the Neapolitan Ambassador. 'A non esse nec fuisse non datur argumentum ad non posse.' Second edition, London: printed for the Author, and sold at the Panther; also by the Publisher J. Bell, at the British Library, Strand, and at Mr. Molini's, W…

Topics: Aërostation, Aerial Voyage, Science, Chemistry

Locations: London, Colliers End, Standon, Herts, Cambridge, Lucca, Tuscany, Artillery Ground