Record

RefNoCLP/11ii/21
LevelItem
TitleExtract, 'Remarks on Caspar Neumann's paper on ambergris' by John Brown [Browne]
Date[1730]
DescriptionExtract from a paper by Browne criticising Neumann's treatise on ambergris (see CLP/11ii/20) and conclusion that ambergris was a type of amber. Browne found Neumann's samples of ambergris to be too small to draw solid conclusions about the nature of material. Browne repeated the experiments with a greater amount of ambergris and

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of a paper titled 'Editoris recensio experimentorum circa Ambram gryseam à Domino Joh. Browne, R. S. S. & à Dno. Ambrosio Godofredo Hanckewitz, R. S. S. institutorum, cum D. Neumanni, R. S. S. Experimenti sui vindicatione'.

Read to the Royal Society on 19 November 1730.
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1733.0061
RelatedRecordRBO/17/70
CLP/11ii/24
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6151Neumann; Caspar (1683 - 1737)1683 - 1737
NA7345Browne; John (-1735)-1735
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