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Paper, 'A new frigorificke experiment by Robert Boyle showing how a considerable degree of cold may be suddainly produced with out the help of snow, ice, haile, wind, or nitre, and that at any time of the year' by M Boyle

Reference number: CLP/4i/15

Date: 1666

Description

Boyle observes how temperatures can drop suddeny with snow, ice and wind.

Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A new Frigorifick experiment shewing, how a considerable degree of cold may be suddenly produced without the help of snow, ice, haile, wind, or niter, and that at any time of the year'

Read to the Royal Society on 11 July 1666

Reference number
CLP/4i/15
Earliest possible date
1666
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Ink on paper
Page extent
15 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'A new frigorificke experiment by Robert Boyle showing how a considerable degree of cold may be suddainly produced with out the help of snow, ice, haile, wind, or nitre, and that at any time of the year' by M Boyle, 1666, CLP/4i/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_4i_15/paper-a-new-frigorificke-experiment-by-robert-boyle-showing-how-a-considerable-degree-of-cold-may-be-suddainly-produced-with-out-the-help-of-snow-ice-haile-wind-or-nitre-and-that-at-any-time-of-the-year-by-m-boyle, accessed on 16 February 2025

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