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Paper, 'A small stone of the kinde called by some authors 'oculus mundi' being dry and clowdy, weighed' by unknown author

Reference number: CLP/6/3

Date: 1661

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Observations of the stone called oculus mundi, recording the stone's weight when wet or dry in various scenarios. Follow-up to this paper found at CLP/6/3a.

Subject: Geology

Read to the Royal Society on 13 November 1661

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CLP/6/3
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1661
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1 page
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Paper, 'A small stone of the kinde called by some authors 'oculus mundi' being dry and clowdy, weighed' by unknown author, 1661, CLP/6/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_6_3/paper-a-small-stone-of-the-kinde-called-by-some-authors-oculus-mundi-being-dry-and-clowdy-weighed-by-unknown-author, accessed on 04 September 2026

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