Description | Bent describes how pitch, tar, rosin, and turpentine are made near Marseilles [France] fromt he sap of pine trees.
Subject: Industry
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The way of making pitch, tarr, rosin and turpentine near Marseilles; communicated in a letter from Nismes, by Mr. Thomas Bent, to Dr. Welsted'.
Read to the Royal Society on 21 January 1684. |