'An account of the Sceleton [skeleton] of a Man the Bones of which were fill'd with Lead, extracted out of Mr Weaver's ancient funeral Monuments in Britain and the Isles adjacent...'
Reference number: RBO/14/98
Date: 1729
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From chapter entitled 'Of the Cure and Cost anciently used in the preserving whole and entire the Bodies of the Dead' published in London 1631, and from some letters from Edmund Waller, Fellow of St John's College Cambridge to Cromwell Mortimer
Read to the Royal Society on 5 February 1729
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- RBO/14/98
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- 1729
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- 6 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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'An account of the Sceleton [skeleton] of a Man the Bones of which were fill'd with Lead, extracted out of Mr Weaver's ancient funeral Monuments in Britain and the Isles adjacent...', 1729, RBO/14/98, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_14_98/an-account-of-the-sceleton-skeleton-of-a-man-the-bones-of-which-were-filld-with-lead-extracted-out-of-mr-weavers-ancient-funeral-monuments-in-britain-and-the-isles-adjacent, accessed on 24 April 2025
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Extracts, 'An account of the skeleton of a man, the bones of which were filled with lead' by Mr Weaver [John Weever] and letter on the subject from Edmund Waller to Cromwell Mortimer
Creator: Edmund Waller, Cromwell Mortimer Reference number: CLP/12ii/47
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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 14, copies of papers communicated 1728-1730
1728-1730 Reference number: RBO/14
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