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Letter, 'Proposal to improve distillation in the chemical way' from Browne Langrish to Dr Hales

Reference number: L&P/1/343

Date: 01 January 1744

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Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Mr. Browne Langrish, Licent. Coll. Med. Lond. & F. R. S. to the Rev. Dr. Hales, F. R. S. concerning a new contrivance of applying receivers to retorts in distillation'

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Reference number
L&P/1/343
Earliest possible date
01 January 1744
Physical description
Ink on paper with illustration
Page extent
5 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Browne Langrish

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Browne Langrish, Letter, 'Proposal to improve distillation in the chemical way' from Browne Langrish to Dr Hales, 01 January 1744, L&P/1/343, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_343/letter-proposal-to-improve-distillation-in-the-chemical-way-from-browne-langrish-to-dr-hales, accessed on 04 December 2023

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