'General Heads for making the Natural History of a Country' by Robert Boyle
Reference number: RBO/3/38
Date: 9 May 1666
Description
Definition of the categories required for comprehensive natural histories.
Main heads:
Air (astronomy, meteorology, location); Water (Sea, lakes, rivers, fishes) and Earth (geology, geography, ethnology, demography, agriculture).
Printed in the Philosophical Transactions, vol. 1 issue 11, pp. 186-189.
- Reference number
- RBO/3/38
- Earliest possible date
- 9 May 1666
- Physical description
- DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1665.0082
- Page extent
- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Robert Boyle, 'General Heads for making the Natural History of a Country' by Robert Boyle, 9 May 1666, RBO/3/38, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_3_38/general-heads-for-making-the-natural-history-of-a-country-by-robert-boyle, accessed on 03 October 2024
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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 3, copies of papers communicated 1663-1668
1663-1668 Reference number: RBO/3
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