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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
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Manuscript

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Robert Boyle

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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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