Reference number | CLP/11i/21 |
Level | Item |
Title | Paper, 'A paper of the honourable Robt [Robert] Boyle deposited with the secretarys [sic] of the Royal Society and opened since his death being an account of his way of making the phosphorus etc.' by Robert Boyle |
Date | 30 September 1680 |
Description | Boyle describes how to make phosphorus from stale human urine that has been distilled over heat into a syrup. This syrup is then mixed with fine, white sand and heating in a stone retort until phosphorus is produced.
Subject: Chemistry
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A paper of the Honourable Robert Boyl's, deposited with the secretaries of the Royal Society, Octob. 14. 1680. and opened since his death; being an account of his making the phosphorus, etc'.
Received by Robert Hooke. Read to the Royal Society on 16 October 1680. |
Extent | 2p |
Format | Manuscript |
Physical description | Ink on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
Access status | Open |
Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1693.0002 Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 17, no 196, p 583 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA8137 | Boyle; Robert (1627 - 1691); natural philosopher and chemist | 1627 - 1691 |
NA8242 | Hooke; Robert (1635 - 1703); natural philosopher | 1635 - 1703 |