Explanation of the use of the Linea Carolina
Date
1669
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p3
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 209mm
width (page): 187mm
width (page): 187mm
Description
Small symbols in the text pointing to parts of the figure on the next page.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 18 November 1669, ‘Monsr. George Stiernhelm, a Swedish gentleman, and one of the council of war to the king of Sweden, was proposed candidate upon his desire expressed in a letter from Stockholm to the president dated September 21, 1669, and delivered at the meeting by Mr. Chamberlayne, who presented at the same time from Monsr. Stiernhelm several curiosities, as 1. An instrument called by the presenter linea Carolina, together with a written paper explaining the design and use of that line, viz. that, supposing common water to be alike all over the world, and taking a Batavian grain for the least common measure, it would teach to know all other measures both of liquids and dry things, and from thence to know also the capacities of all vessels, and the change of their shapes in any other shapes whatsoever assigned. [...] The president was desired to consider the full import of the linea Carolina, together with the written paper, and the printed table, both relating to it, and to make report of it to the society at their next meeting’ (Birch 2:401-02).
Related fellows
Edward Chamberlayne (1616 - 1703, British) , Author
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