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Description

Contains two figures.

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Thoughts on the Reverend Dr. Hales’s new method of distillation by the united force of air and fire'

Read 26 February 1756

Reference number
L&P/3/116
Earliest possible date
1756
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

William Brownrigg

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William Brownrigg, Paper, 'Thoughts on Dr Hale's new method of distillation' by William Brownrigg, 1756, L&P/3/116, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_116/paper-thoughts-on-dr-hales-new-method-of-distillation-by-william-brownrigg, accessed on 20 July 2025

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