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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

Account of making 'Aurum Musicum'

Reference number: RBO/1/42

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'Take of Sal Armoniac and Sulphur of each one pound, of Mercury two pounds, melt one pound of black-tinn, and cast the Mercury therein....'
Details also given for making plaster statues look like brass or copper ones by using 'aurum musicum'
Read to the Royal Society on 30 July 1662

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RBO/1/42
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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Account of making 'Aurum Musicum', RBO/1/42, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_1_42/account-of-making-aurum-musicum, accessed on 06 October 2026

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