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Account of quicksilver mines in Idria by Walter Pope, dated at Venice

Reference number: EL/P1/46

Date: 1664

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Sent with EL/P1/45
Read to the Royal Society on 11 January 1665

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EL/P1/46
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1664
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Walter Pope

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Walter Pope, Account of quicksilver mines in Idria by Walter Pope, dated at Venice, 1664, EL/P1/46, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_p1_46/account-of-quicksilver-mines-in-idria-by-walter-pope-dated-at-venice, accessed on 18 January 2026

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