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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, by Stephen Hales ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Seawater--Distillation.
- Seawater.
- Food--Preservation.
- Food.
- Mineral waters--Early works to 1800.
- Mineral waters.
- Physical Description:
- 2 pages ., xxx pages, 1 ., 163 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : plate. ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : W. Innys and R. Manby [etc.], 1739.
- OCLC:
- 13793413
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