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Petty provides details about substances used to dye leather, paper, and other materials and about the apparatuses used to do this.

Subject: Chemistry / Industry

Read to the Royal Society on 7 May 1662.

Reference number
CLP/3i/6
Earliest possible date
1662
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
8 pages
Format
Manuscript

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William Petty

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William Petty, Paper, 'An apparatus to the history of comon [sic] practises in dyeing' by [William Petty], 1662, CLP/3i/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_3i_6/paper-an-apparatus-to-the-history-of-comon-sic-practises-in-dyeing-by-william-petty, accessed on 08 February 2026

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