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October 24, 1683. Several members of the Royal Society and others, met at Oxford for making experiments. There was communicated an observation of the weight of the earth of the Nile about the time of the overflowing of that river, but especially a relenting of a piece of nitroon or nitre, brought from ÆEgypt, which continually wet the papers, on which it lay, both in rains and dry weather, from the middle of June till about the end of September.—There was also an intimation of fish having lived in a cistern upon rain-water only for half a year, till upon the freezing of the water they died by breaking of the ice.--There was also mention made of a probable way of tinging white marble black.
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Early Science at Oxford. Nature 116, 630 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116630a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/116630a0