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Paper, 'A Relation of some strange phanomena, accompanied with mischievous effects in a Cole-work in Flint-shire' by Roger Mostyn to Reverend Dr [Ralph] Bathurst

Reference number: EL/M1/81

Date: 1677

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Roger Mostyn obtained the report at Bathurst's request from his father's steward and overseer of the coal mine
Effects of the sulphurous vapour and damp in the mine; about the effects of an explosion in the mine which occurred on 3 February 1675
Read to the Royal Society on 10 May 1677

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EL/M1/81
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1677
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'A Relation of some strange phanomena, accompanied with mischievous effects in a Cole-work in Flint-shire' by Roger Mostyn to Reverend Dr [Ralph] Bathurst, 1677, EL/M1/81, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_m1_81/paper-a-relation-of-some-strange-phanomena-accompanied-with-mischievous-effects-in-a-cole-work-in-flint-shire-by-roger-mostyn-to-reverend-dr-ralph-bathurst, accessed on 15 October 2024

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