'Dr Papin Experiments made with Mr Molyneux his Hygroscope And Of Animals in Factitious Air'
Reference number: RBO/6/70
Date: 27 May 1685
Description
Hygroscope has a pound weight hanging on a cord; observations of 'small animals generated in water impregnated with ivory softned in the Digester'
- Reference number
- RBO/6/70
- Earliest possible date
- 27 May 1685
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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'Dr Papin Experiments made with Mr Molyneux his Hygroscope And Of Animals in Factitious Air', 27 May 1685, RBO/6/70, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_6_70/dr-papin-experiments-made-with-mr-molyneux-his-hygroscope-and-of-animals-in-factitious-air, accessed on 11 November 2025
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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 6, copies of papers communicated 1685-1687
1685-1687 Reference number: RBO/6
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Dates: 1661 - 1739
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