Philosophical experiments: containing useful, and necessary instructions for such as undertake long voyages at sea : Shewing how sea-water may be made fresh and wholsome: and how fresh water may be preserv'd sweet. How biscuit, corn, &c. may be secured from the weevel, meggots, and other insects. And flesh preserv'd in hot climates, by salting animals whole. To which is added, an account of several experiments and observations on chalybeate or steel-waters... which were read before the Royal-society, at several of their meetings
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Type of record: Book
Title: Philosophical experiments: containing useful, and necessary instructions for such as undertake long voyages at sea : Shewing how sea-water may be made fresh and wholsome: and how fresh water may be preserv'd sweet. How biscuit, corn, &c. may be secured from the weevel, meggots, and other insects. And flesh preserv'd in hot climates, by salting animals whole. To which is added, an account of several experiments and observations on chalybeate or steel-waters... which were read before the Royal-society, at several of their meetings
Classmark: BC Sc/HAL
Creator(s): Hales, Stephen (1677-1761)
Publisher: printed for W. Innys and R. Manby [etc.]
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1739
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 p.l., xxx p., 1 l., 163, [6] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/285890
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002191429705181
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Bound with 2 other publications by the same author in a volume lettered: HALES'S TRACTS. Volume contents: 1. Philosophical experiments, 1739. -- 2. A description of ventilators, 1743. -- 3. An account of some experiments and observations on tar water, 1747
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