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Catalogue Entry: MINT00776

Report on samples of ore sent to the Mint by Townshend for testing: it is rich in silver, but Newton does not know where it comes from

Author: Newton, Isaac

Printed in NC, 6: 316-17. See Craig, NATM, 104.

Professor Rob Iliffe (Faculty of History, University of Oxford) and Scott Mandelbrote (Fellow & Perne Librarian, Peterhouse, Cambridge).