Paper, 'Aurum musicum' by unknown author
Reference number: CLP/11i/1
Date: 1662
Description
Paper detailing how to make aurum musicum and how to use the aurum musicum to give a brass or copper colouring to plaster statues.
Subject: Chemistry
Read to the Royal Society on 30 July 1662.
- Reference number
- CLP/11i/1
- Earliest possible date
- 1662
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Paper, 'Aurum musicum' by unknown author, 1662, CLP/11i/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_11i_1/paper-aurum-musicum-by-unknown-author, accessed on 19 March 2025
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