Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16008

    Impression of a seal

    Date
    24 December 1677
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p2
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 335mm
    width (page): 232mm
    Description
    Stamped impression of a large seal. Some features are indistinct.

    Letter from Georges du Mesnillet, 'Patriarch of Antioch', to Robert Boyle. Du Mesnillet was the leader of the 'Asterism', a secret society of alchemical masters into which Boyle was to be inducted (see The Correspondence of Robert Boyle, ed. by Hunter et al., vol. 4, p. 445).
    Related fellows
    Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691, British) , Natural philosopher
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