The supplement to a small treatise called Salt-water sweetned shewing the great advantages both by sea and land, of sea-water made fresh. Together with the Honourable Mr. Boyle's letter, and the approbation of the Colledge of Physicians, of the wholsomness of this water. And also the conditions on which the patentees and others concern'd, do intend to contract with such as shall please to deal with them for the use of his invention.
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The supplement to a small treatise called Salt-water sweetned shewing the great advantages both by sea and land, of sea-water made fresh. Together with the Honourable Mr. Boyle's letter, and the approbation of the Colledge of Physicians, of the wholsomness of this water. And also the conditions on which the patentees and others concern'd, do intend to contract with such as shall please to deal with them for the use of his invention.
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Fitzgerald, R. (Robert)
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London :: Printed by John Harefinch in Mountague-Court ...,
[1684]
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Seawater -- Distillation -- Early works to 1800.
Saline water conversion -- Early works to 1800.
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"The supplement to a small treatise called Salt-water sweetned shewing the great advantages both by sea and land, of sea-water made fresh. Together with the Honourable Mr. Boyle's letter, and the approbation of the Colledge of Physicians, of the wholsomness of this water. And also the conditions on which the patentees and others concern'd, do intend to contract with such as shall please to deal with them for the use of his invention." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A39600.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.
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An ABSTRACT out of
the Gazette, Numb. 1676.
HIS Majesty was pleas'd
to Command the Ho∣nourable
Mr. Boyle to attend Him, to give
His Majesty an Ocular Proof of the Nicety of
his way of examining the freshness and saltness
of Water, and to apply it to the Sea-Water,
prepar'd according to the Patentees Invention;
which being done before his Majesty, his
Royal Highness, and the Duke of Grafton,
several Persons of Quality being also present,
it was made apparent, by a certain prepar'd
Liquid which Mr. Boyle had brought with him,
that a Discovery could be made if there were
so much as a thousandth part of Salt in a pro∣pos'd
Water: By which Tryal His Majesty,
finding that the Prepar'd Sea-Water, for
which he has granted his Royal Patent, was
at least as free from Salt as the best Waters used
in this Town: received such Satisfaction as to
the wholsomness of the said Water, that He
was pleased to declare his Royal Intentions
both to encourage the said Invention, and to
have the said Water made use of in his seve∣ral
Maritime Garrisons, which Nature has not
furnished with wholsom Water.