Iron pot for melting a stone
Date
23 May 1666
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 303mm
width (page): 193mm
width (page): 193mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Small drawing in the margin of an iron pot, used to extract sulphur, vitriol, allum and minium from a single stone found in Sweden. This account was sent in by Sir Gilbert Talbot, one of the founding Fellows of the Royal Society, who served as envoy extraordinary to Denmark from 1664 to 1666. The description was read at the meeting on 23 May 1666 and published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 1, no. 21 (January 1667).
This figure was copied in RBO/3/118 and RBC/2/247.
This figure was copied in RBO/3/118 and RBC/2/247.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 23 May 1666, ‘Sir Paul Neile communicated a paper delivered to him by Sir Gilbert Talbot, containing an account of a stone found in Sweden, yielding sulphur, vitriol, allum, and minium. It was ordered, that Sir Gilbert should be desired to procure a quantity of this stone from Sweden for a trial; and that the paper should be registered’ (Birch 2:94).
Fig. C, figure of an iron pot for melting a stone to extract sulphur etc., printed in Gilbert Talbot, 'A description of a Swedish stone, which affords sulphur, vitriol, alum and minium', Phil. Trans. vol. 1, no. 21 (January 1667), pp. 375-76.
Fig. C, figure of an iron pot for melting a stone to extract sulphur etc., printed in Gilbert Talbot, 'A description of a Swedish stone, which affords sulphur, vitriol, alum and minium', Phil. Trans. vol. 1, no. 21 (January 1667), pp. 375-76.
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