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Extract, 'Remarks on Caspar Neumann's paper on ambergris' by John Brown [Browne]

Reference number: CLP/11ii/21

Date: 1730

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Extract from a paper by Browne criticising Neumann's treatise on ambergris (see CLP/11ii/20) and conclusion that ambergris was a type of amber. Browne found Neumann's samples of ambergris to be too small to draw solid conclusions about the nature of material. Browne repeated the experiments with a greater amount of ambergris and

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of a paper titled 'Editoris recensio experimentorum circa Ambram gryseam à Domino Joh. Browne, R. S. S. & à Dno. Ambrosio Godofredo Hanckewitz, R. S. S. institutorum, cum D. Neumanni, R. S. S. Experimenti sui vindicatione'.

Read to the Royal Society on 19 November 1730.

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CLP/11ii/21
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1730
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4 pages
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John Browne

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John Browne, Extract, 'Remarks on Caspar Neumann's paper on ambergris' by John Brown [Browne], 1730, CLP/11ii/21, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_11ii_21/extract-remarks-on-caspar-neumanns-paper-on-ambergris-by-john-brown-browne, accessed on 06 February 2025

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