'Subterraneous Experiments or Observations made in Coalmines in October 1662 by Dr Power'
Reference number: RBO/2i/9
Date: 1662
Description
Five experiments explained with figure of a weather glass in margin; observations of damp in the mine identifying three types of damp (the common, the suffocating and the fiery); observations of William Gerrard's pits in Lancashire
Read to the Royal Society on 3 December 1662
Plan of the coal mine inserted
Not copied in RBO/2ii
- Reference number
- RBO/2i/9
- Earliest possible date
- 1662
- Page extent
- 6 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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'Subterraneous Experiments or Observations made in Coalmines in October 1662 by Dr Power', 1662, RBO/2i/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_2i_9/subterraneous-experiments-or-observations-made-in-coalmines-in-october-1662-by-dr-power, accessed on 14 October 2024
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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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