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Paper, 'A new, cheape, and delicate fire of cole [coal] balls, wherein seacole is by the mixture of other combustible bodies both sweetned and multiplied' by Theodore de Vaux

Reference number: CLP/3i/25

Date: 1666

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De Vaux describes a new way to create fuel for fire using lome [loam] gathered during winter, water, and seacole [sea coal]. He explains that this method is commonly used in Liège [Wallonia, Belgium], and then goes on to explain how to create the best fire using the substance.

Subject: Mineralogy

Read to the Royal Society on 24 October 1666.

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CLP/3i/25
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1666
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3 pages
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Theodore de Vaux

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Theodore de Vaux, Paper, 'A new, cheape, and delicate fire of cole [coal] balls, wherein seacole is by the mixture of other combustible bodies both sweetned and multiplied' by Theodore de Vaux, 1666, CLP/3i/25, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_3i_25/paper-a-new-cheape-and-delicate-fire-of-cole-coal-balls-wherein-seacole-is-by-the-mixture-of-other-combustible-bodies-both-sweetned-and-multiplied-by-theodore-de-vaux, accessed on 19 September 2024

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