Treatise on ambergris by Casper Neumann, Professor of Chemistry at Berlin
Reference number: RBO/17/69
Date: 1730
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Original document dated 15 October 1729
Details of experiments to determine whether ambergris is animal, vegetable or mineral
Read to the Royal Society on 4 June 1730
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', in three articles: vol 38, no 433, p 344, no 434, p 371, no 435, p 417
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- 1730
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- 72 pages
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- Manuscript
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Caspar Neumann, Treatise on ambergris by Casper Neumann, Professor of Chemistry at Berlin, 1730, RBO/17/69, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_17_69/treatise-on-ambergris-by-casper-neumann-professor-of-chemistry-at-berlin, accessed on 18 April 2025
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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 17, copies of papers communicated 1731-1732
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