Paper, 'Some experiments' by William Croone
Reference number: CLP/17/2
Date: 1663
Description
The paper describes three experiments involving placing eggs in half a pint of Champagne and in wine; pouring five pints of French wine into a large ventricle of an executed person; and stringing up a carp to see how it would feed on bread.
Subject: Chemistry / Physiology
Read to the Royal Society on 22 April 1663
- Reference number
- CLP/17/2
- Earliest possible date
- 1663
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 1 page
- Format
- Manuscript
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William Croone, Paper, 'Some experiments' by William Croone, 1663, CLP/17/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_17_2/paper-some-experiments-by-william-croone, accessed on 24 March 2025
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Dates: 1592 - 1741
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