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'Of Making Cloth with Sheeps wooll Delivered in By Sir William Petty'

Reference number: RBO/1/27

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Read to the Royal Society on 27 November 1661

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RBO/1/27
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20 pages
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Manuscript

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William Petty

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William Petty, 'Of Making Cloth with Sheeps wooll Delivered in By Sir William Petty', RBO/1/27, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_1_27/of-making-cloth-with-sheeps-wooll-delivered-in-by-sir-william-petty, accessed on 21 January 2025

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