'Experiments of Freezing' by Mr Henshaw
Reference number: RBO/2i/8
Date: 3 December 1662
Description
Henshaw describes how to perform 14 different experiments relating to the expansion of water during the freezing process.
Subject: Chemistry
Read to the Royal Society on 3 December 1662
Not copied in RBO/2ii
- Reference number
- RBO/2i/8
- Earliest possible date
- 3 December 1662
- Page extent
- 3 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Thomas Henshaw, 'Experiments of Freezing' by Mr Henshaw, 3 December 1662, RBO/2i/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_2i_8/experiments-of-freezing-by-mr-henshaw, accessed on 08 December 2025
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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 2i, copies of papers communicated 1662-1663
1662-1663 Reference number: RBO/2i
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