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Reference numberDM/5/20
LevelItem
TitleHooke's bills of expenditure by him on the Society's account, and an order dated 23 December 1681 by Sir Christopher Wren to Abraham Hill, Treasurer, to pay Hooke £40
Date23 December 1681
DescriptionExpenditure on such experiments as "The Apparatus about the expt. of seeing into two objects at once" and "...the expt. of staining marble" and such domestic arrangements as "coles for the repository".
Extent3 sides
FormatManuscript
Access statusOpen
Access conditionsOPEN - but photocopying forbidden.
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8242Hooke; Robert (1635 - 1703); natural philosopher1635 - 1703
NA8299Wren; Sir; Christopher (1632 - 1723); architect, astronomer, and mathematician1632 - 1723
NA6148Hill; Abraham (1633 - 1721); merchant1633 - 1721
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