Ambrose Godfrey to Hans Sloane – July the 29 1734
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Date: July the 29 1734 Author: Ambrose Godfrey Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4053 Folio: f. 245
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July the 29 1734
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July ye 29:1734 Sir I have made the usual tryals with all the Acids, and find them to have not the least action on the powder; which discovers it to be only an insipid earth, and after having fluxed it find it to contain nothing metallick. I am Sir yr most obed.tserv.t to Comand
Ambrose Godfrey Sr. (1660-1741) was a chemist. He was first employed by Robert Boyle and went on to work at Apothecaries’ Hall. Godfrey analyzed the chemical properties of stones, waters, and other materials for Hans Sloane and the Royal Society. His work was published in the Philosophical Transactions from 1731 to 1736 (Lawrence M. Principe, Godfrey, Ambrose, the elder (16601741), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10865, accessed 14 Aug 2013]).
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