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August 26, 1684. Dr. Plot, lately come from ye Royall Society, informes us, that in a meeting of that Society, on some day in this month, he saw a handkercheif, made of Salamanders Wool, or Linum Asbesti, shewn ye Royall Society by a merchant, who lately brought it from China. To try whether it was genuin, or no, it was put into a strong charcoal fire; in which not being injured, it was taken out, oiled, and put in again; ye oil being burnt off, the handkercheif was taken out again, and was altered onely in two respects; it lost two drachms and five grains of its weight, and was (as ye merchant affirmed) more brittle then ordinary; for which reason, it was not handled untill it was grown cold, by which time it had recovered its former tenacity, and in a great measure its weight.
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Early Science at Oxford. Nature 116, 299 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116299a0
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