Paper, 'An Account concerning the Tin mines in Devonshire' by Dr [Edward?] Cotton
Reference number: CLP/9i/14
Date: 1664

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Figure of mine topography in Dartmoor attached.
Read to the Royal Society on 25 May 1664
Subject: Geology / Industry / Mining
- Reference number
- CLP/9i/14
- Earliest possible date
- 1664
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- Ink, pencil and red chalk on paper
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- 3 pages
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- Manuscript
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Edward Cotton, Paper, 'An Account concerning the Tin mines in Devonshire' by Dr [Edward?] Cotton, 1664, CLP/9i/14, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_9i_14/paper-an-account-concerning-the-tin-mines-in-devonshire-by-dr-edward-cotton, accessed on 13 February 2025
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Date: 25th March 1671
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1671.0004
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