Instrument for experimenting with acidic spirits
Date
21 June 1699
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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Manuscript page number
p4
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 194mm
width (page): 150mm
width (page): 150mm
Subject
Content object
Description
A glass bottle designed by Wilhelm Homberg (1652-1715) of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris to experiment on acidic spirits, which was reported by Etienne François Geoffroy to the Royal Society at the meeting on 21 June 1699. It was published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 22, no. 262 (1700).
Object history
21 June 1699, 'A Letter from Monsr Geoffry, from Paris was read, relating ye Effects of Hedera Terrestris & about volatile saltes; with a Table to know by the Araometer the Exact measure of salts' (JBO/10/132).
E. F. Geoffroy, 'Concerning the Exact Quantity of Acid Salts Contained in Acid Spirits', Phil. Trans., vol. 22, no. 262 (1700), pp. 530-34.
E. F. Geoffroy, 'Concerning the Exact Quantity of Acid Salts Contained in Acid Spirits', Phil. Trans., vol. 22, no. 262 (1700), pp. 530-34.
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