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

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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
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- 1666
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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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Classified papers: volume 4i concerning 'Physiology, Meteorology, Pneumaticks'
1661-1728 Reference number: CLP/4i
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