Extract of a letter, 'The way of making pitch, tarr, rosin and turpentine near Marseilles' in a letter from Thomas Bent to Dr Welsted
Reference number: CLP/3i/23a
Date: 1684
Description
Bent describes how pitch, tar, rosin, and turpentine are made near Marseilles [France] fromt he sap of pine trees.
Subject: Industry
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The way of making pitch, tarr, rosin and turpentine near Marseilles; communicated in a letter from Nismes, by Mr. Thomas Bent, to Dr. Welsted'.
Read to the Royal Society on 21 January 1684.
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- CLP/3i/23a
- Earliest possible date
- 1684
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Extract of a letter, 'The way of making pitch, tarr, rosin and turpentine near Marseilles' in a letter from Thomas Bent to Dr Welsted, 1684, CLP/3i/23a, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_3i_23a/extract-of-a-letter-the-way-of-making-pitch-tarr-rosin-and-turpentine-near-marseilles-in-a-letter-from-thomas-bent-to-dr-welsted, accessed on 17 March 2026
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VII. The way of making pitch, tarr, rosin and turpentine near Marseilles; communicated in a letter from Nismes, by Mr. Thomas Bent, to Dr. Welsted External link, opens in new tab.
Author: Thomas Bent
Date: 1st August 1698
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1698.0058
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Classified papers: volume 3i concerning 'Mechanicks, Trades, Engineering, Navigation'
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