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Paper, 'Observations on borax in Tibet' by Giuseppe da Rovato

Reference number: L&P/9/49

Date: 1787

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6 pages in Italian and 6 pages in English.

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from the Father Prefect of the Mission in Thibet, F. Joseph da Rovato, containing some observations relative to borax'

Read 17 May 1787

Reference number
L&P/9/49
Earliest possible date
1787
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Ink on paper
Page extent
12 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'Observations on borax in Tibet' by Giuseppe da Rovato, 1787, L&P/9/49, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_49/paper-observations-on-borax-in-tibet-by-giuseppe-da-rovato, accessed on 17 January 2025

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