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Reference numberCLP/4i/15
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'A new frigorificke experiment by Robert Boyle showing how a considerable degree of cold may be suddainly produced with out the help of snow, ice, haile, wind, or nitre, and that at any time of the year' by M Boyle
Date1666
DescriptionBoyle 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
LanguageEnglish
Extent15p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionInk on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1665.0106
Related records in the catalogueRBC/2/79
RBO/3/40
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8137Boyle; Robert (1627 - 1691); natural philosopher and chemist1627 - 1691
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