The Royal Society asked Francis Lodwick to translate Letter L-168 about cinnebar and gunpowder

Date: 
April 3, 1686
Document: 

Birch, History, vol IV, p. 468, 24 March 1686 (O.S.) in London:

Mr. LODWICK was desired to translate a letter of Mr. LEEWENHOECK's containing his microscopical observarions upon cinnabar and gun-powder.

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