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Henshaw read his orginal paper on this subject at a meeting of the Royal Society on 3 December 1662 and at the request of the Fellows presented his experiments at the following meeting on 10 December 1662

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MS/215/4
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03 December 1662

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Experiments of Freezing. By Mr Henshaw, 03 December 1662, MS/215/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ms_215_4/experiments-of-freezing-by-mr-henshaw, accessed on 06 December 2025

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