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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

Reference number: CLP/3i/23a

Date: 1684

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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.

Reference number
CLP/3i/23a
Earliest possible date
1684
Physical description
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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