'An account of the Gold Mines in Brazil belonging to the King of Portugal communicated in a letter to Cromwell Mortimer by Jacob de Castro Sarmento
Reference number: RBO/16/3
Date: 1731
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About finding diamonds in the goldmines
Read to the Royal Society on 1 July 1731
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- RBO/16/3
- Earliest possible date
- 1731
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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'An account of the Gold Mines in Brazil belonging to the King of Portugal communicated in a letter to Cromwell Mortimer by Jacob de Castro Sarmento, 1731, RBO/16/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_16_3/an-account-of-the-gold-mines-in-brazil-belonging-to-the-king-of-portugal-communicated-in-a-letter-to-cromwell-mortimer-by-jacob-de-castro-sarmento, accessed on 17 February 2026
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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 16, copies of papers communicated 1731-1732
1731-1732 Reference number: RBO/16
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Dates: 1661 - 1739
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