| Reference number | CLP/3i/66 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Extract, 'A relation of the great effects of a new sort of burning speculum lately made in Germany' by unknown author |
| Date | [1687] |
| Description | This extract from the Acta Eruditorum of January [1687?] describes a concave burning speculum which the author had made in Lusace [Lusatia, a region situated in modern Germany and Poland].
Subject: Scientific Instruments
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A relation of the great effects of a new sort of burning speculum lately made in Germany: taken from the Acta Eruditorum of the month of January last: being a letter from the inventor to the authors of that journal'.
Read to the Royal Society on 22 June 1687. |
| Extent | 4p |
| 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.1686.0065
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions' Volume 16, Issue 188 (1686) |
| JBO/8/153 |