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Memories of Denmark including details about the weather, vegetation, trees, animals, food and drink - that the Baltic sea froze over in winter - details of freezing different liquids; the effects of frost

Read to the Royal Society on 18 February 1675

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RBO/5/2
Earliest possible date
1675
Page extent
12 pages
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Manuscript

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Observations of Denmark and of the voyage there by Thomas Henshaw, 1675, RBO/5/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_5_2/observations-of-denmark-and-of-the-voyage-there-by-thomas-henshaw, accessed on 06 June 2026

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