List, Recipies on 'Dying Straw' transcribed by Robert Hooke
Reference number: CLP/24/83
Date: 28 April 1670
Description
A list of recipes for dying straw arranged by colour. List includes 'Pourfain du vert' ['For the green'], 'Pour faire du rouge' ['For the red'], 'Pour le violet' ['For the violet'] and 'Pour faire de l'orange' ['For the orange']. Main body text is in French, very few notes are in English. Notes at the top and bottom of the page that the recipes were acquired in Bretaye, Switzerland, and that they were communicated to Hooke by Mr. [John] Evelyn.
Subject: Chemistry
- Reference number
- CLP/24/83
- Earliest possible date
- 28 April 1670
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 3 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Robert Hooke, List, Recipies on 'Dying Straw' transcribed by Robert Hooke, 28 April 1670, CLP/24/83, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_24_83/list-recipies-on-dying-straw-transcribed-by-robert-hooke, accessed on 15 October 2024
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Classified papers: volume 24, papers of John Collins, Henry Oldenburg, Robert Hooke, mathematics
17th century Reference number: CLP/24
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John Evelyn
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