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Paper, 'A brief experimentall accompt of the production of some colours, by mixture of severall liquors either having little or no colour, or being of different colours from those produced' by Jonathan Goddard

Reference number: CLP/2/25

Date: 1661

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Goddard describes methods of producing white, blue, yellow, green, crimson, and black using liquids that do not correspond to these colours but rather combine to produce them.

Subject: Chemistry

Read to the Royal Society on 16 January 1660.

Reference number
CLP/2/25
Earliest possible date
1661
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Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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Jonathan Goddard

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Jonathan Goddard, Paper, 'A brief experimentall accompt of the production of some colours, by mixture of severall liquors either having little or no colour, or being of different colours from those produced' by Jonathan Goddard, 1661, CLP/2/25, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_2_25/paper-a-brief-experimentall-accompt-of-the-production-of-some-colours-by-mixture-of-severall-liquors-either-having-little-or-no-colour-or-being-of-different-colours-from-those-produced-by-jonathan-goddard, accessed on 09 October 2024

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