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Paper, 'Experiments with platina' by William Lewis

Reference number: L&P/2/508

Date: 1758

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Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experimental examination of a white metallic substance said to be found in the gold mines of the Spanish West-Indies [Caribbean], and there known by the appellations of platina, Platina di Pinto, Juan Blanca'

Read 30 May 1754

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L&P/2/508
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1758
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9 pages
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Manuscript

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William Lewis

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William Lewis, Paper, 'Experiments with platina' by William Lewis, 1758, L&P/2/508, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_508/paper-experiments-with-platina-by-william-lewis, accessed on 14 July 2025

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