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Paper, 'An account of a tench tryed in the exhausting engine' by Dr [William] Croon [Croone]

Reference number: CLP/4i/6

Date: 1663

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Croone details an experiment involving putting a tench in a receiver and exhausting the air within. The tench died, and its bladder was flat and empty. A second experiment was performed by pumping air out, resulting in the bladder becoming distended.

Subject: Zoology

Read to the Royal Society on 20 May 1663.

Reference number
CLP/4i/6
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1663
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Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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William Croone

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William Croone, Paper, 'An account of a tench tryed in the exhausting engine' by Dr [William] Croon [Croone], 1663, CLP/4i/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_4i_6/paper-an-account-of-a-tench-tryed-in-the-exhausting-engine-by-dr-william-croon-croone, accessed on 17 March 2025

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