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RefNoRBO/3/40
AltRefNoRBO.3.144
LevelItem
Title'A New Frigorifick Experiments shewing How a considerable degree of Cold may be suddenly produced without the help of Snow, Ice, Haile, Wind or Nitre: And that at any time of the year' by Robert 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
Extent9 sides
FormatManuscript
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1665.0106
RelatedRecordCLP/4i/15
RBC/2/79
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CodePersonNameDates
NA8137Boyle; Robert (1627 - 1691); natural philosopher and chemist1627 - 1691
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