Furnaces in Hungary
Date
8 March 1670
Creator
Edward Brown (1644 - 1708, British) , Physician
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p290a
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 309mm
width (page): 200mm
width (page): 200mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Drawing of furnaces used in Hungary for burning, melting and driving ores, which accompanied the original letter from Edward Browne to Henry Oldenburg, dated 8 March 1670 [N.S.] and read to the Society on 10 March 1670. Browne also sent some samples of minerals with this letter.
These images are copied in LBC/3/359.
These images are copied in LBC/3/359.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 10 March 1670, ‘Mr. Oldenburg produced a letter from Dr. Edward Brown, dated at Norwich, March 8, 1669/70, giving notice of some minerals sent by major Bendish, which were delivered at this meeting by the said major, and came accompanied with an answer to several queries formerly recommended to the Doctor, who also sent a draught and description of a burning, melting and driving furnace’ (Birch 2:427). The details are printed in Birch 2: 428-29.
Related fellows
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Edward Brown (1644 - 1708, British) , Physician
Christopher Merrett (1614 - 1695, British) , Physician
Edward Brown (1644 - 1708, British) , Physician
Christopher Merrett (1614 - 1695, British) , Physician
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