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Letter, from Luke Hodgson to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Newcastle

Reference number: EL/H3/23

Date: 15 May 1676

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Answers to questions set by Robert Boyle about smouldering coalpits near Newcastle and then compares it to Mount Etna; sends a box of the different salts found in the coalpit
Account of the 'spirit of sugar'
Read to the Royal Society on 2 November 1676

Reference number
EL/H3/23
Earliest possible date
15 May 1676
Page extent
5 pages
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Manuscript

Creator name

Luke Hodgson

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Luke Hodgson, Letter, from Luke Hodgson to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Newcastle, 15 May 1676, EL/H3/23, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_h3_23/letter-from-luke-hodgson-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-newcastle, accessed on 11 February 2025

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