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Extract, 'Extracts from Dr [Ernest] Bruckman's Relationes Itinerariae inserted in the Breslaw Miscellanys of Natural History of the year 1725' by unknown author

Reference number: CLP/9i/74

Date: 1725

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Extract describing mining towns producing gold, silver, copper, and lead in Lower Hungary. Brukman describes the process of refining the ores. Mining towns described include Kremnitz [Kremnica], Schemnitz [Banská Štiavnica], Neusohl [Banská Bystrica], Richtergrun [Richtárova], Konigsberg [Kaliningrad], and Smolnitz [Smolnica].

Subject: Mineralogy

Read to the Royal Society on 27 January 1730.

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CLP/9i/74
Earliest possible date
1725
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Ink on paper
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9 pages
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Extract, 'Extracts from Dr [Ernest] Bruckman's Relationes Itinerariae inserted in the Breslaw Miscellanys of Natural History of the year 1725' by unknown author, 1725, CLP/9i/74, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_9i_74/extract-extracts-from-dr-ernest-bruckmans-relationes-itinerariae-inserted-in-the-breslaw-miscellanys-of-natural-history-of-the-year-1725-by-unknown-author, accessed on 15 November 2025

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