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'A New Frigorifick Experiments shewing How a considerable degree of Cold may be suddenly produced without the help of Snow, Ice, Haile, Wind or Nitre: And that at any time of the year' by Robert Boyle

Reference number: RBO/3/40

Date: 1666

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Boyle observes how temperatures can drop suddeny with snow, ice and wind.

Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A new Frigorifick experiment shewing, how a considerable degree of cold may be suddenly produced without the help of snow, ice, haile, wind, or niter, and that at any time of the year'

Read to the Royal Society on 11 July 1666

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RBO/3/40
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1666
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9 pages
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Robert Boyle, 'A New Frigorifick Experiments shewing How a considerable degree of Cold may be suddenly produced without the help of Snow, Ice, Haile, Wind or Nitre: And that at any time of the year' by Robert Boyle, 1666, RBO/3/40, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_3_40/a-new-frigorifick-experiments-shewing-how-a-considerable-degree-of-cold-may-be-suddenly-produced-without-the-help-of-snow-ice-haile-wind-or-nitre-and-that-at-any-time-of-the-year-by-robert-boyle, accessed on 19 June 2025

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