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Outlines experiment to distinguish spirit of wine from malt spirits - test often used by merchant or dealers in French brandy
Read to the Royal Society on 9 December 1725

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RBO/12/13
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1725
Page extent
11 pages
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Manuscript

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'De Experimento probandi Spiritum Vini Gallici perquam usitato sed revera falso et fallaci' by Casper Neumann, 1725, RBO/12/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_12_13/de-experimento-probandi-spiritum-vini-gallici-perquam-usitato-sed-revera-falso-et-fallaci-by-casper-neumann, accessed on 17 March 2025

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