| RefNo | EL/T/23a |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Description of an experiment with a sealed thermometer in a coal pit by Richard Towneley |
| Creator | Towneley; Richard (1629-1707); mathematician and astronomer |
| Date | 1672 |
| Description | Sent with EL/T/24
Figure of the coal mine
Read to the Royal Society on 27 November 1672 |
| Language | English |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | Transcribed in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall & Marie Boas Hall, vol 9, p 269 |
| URLDescription | Also available on Early Modern Letters Online |