Description | Monconis describes the kilns ('les fours') which he has seen used in Cairo for the incubation and hatching of chicken eggs.
Subject: Agriculture
Read to the Royal Society on 1 July 1663
A related paper by George Ent was published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The manner of hatching chicken at Cairo, observed by Mr. John Graves, sometime Professor of Astronomy at Oxford; and communicated by Sr. George Ent, late President of the college of Physitians, London.' |