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Extract, 'A relation of the great effects of a new sort of burning speculum lately made in Germany' by unknown author

Reference number: CLP/3i/66

Date: 1687

Description

This extract from the Acta Eruditorum of January [1687?] describes a concave burning speculum which the author had made in Lusace [Lusatia, a region situated in modern Germany and Poland].

Subject: Scientific Instruments

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A relation of the great effects of a new sort of burning speculum lately made in Germany: taken from the Acta Eruditorum of the month of January last: being a letter from the inventor to the authors of that journal'.

Read to the Royal Society on 22 June 1687.

Reference number
CLP/3i/66
Earliest possible date
1687
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Extract, 'A relation of the great effects of a new sort of burning speculum lately made in Germany' by unknown author, 1687, CLP/3i/66, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_3i_66/extract-a-relation-of-the-great-effects-of-a-new-sort-of-burning-speculum-lately-made-in-germany-by-unknown-author, accessed on 15 September 2024

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