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'Dr Papin Experiments made with Mr Molyneux his Hygroscope And Of Animals in Factitious Air'

Reference number: RBO/6/70

Date: 27 May 1685

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Hygroscope has a pound weight hanging on a cord; observations of 'small animals generated in water impregnated with ivory softned in the Digester'

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RBO/6/70
Earliest possible date
27 May 1685
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2 pages
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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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