Thermometer used for an experiment at Chatham
Date
18 March 1663
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p213
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 350mm
width (page): 230mm
width (page): 230mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Figure of a sealed-up thermometer, which was sunk to the middle and bottom of water at Chatham and measured for its condensation of liquor. No condensation was detected, from which it was judged by Fellows William Brouncker, Robert Moray and Alexander Bruce that the temperature of the water was the same at every level of the water. The result was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 18 March 1663.
Transcription
A sealed-up thermometer, much of the shape of that in the figure was let downe to the bottoms of the water at the depth of 16 fathom and a foot, and there suffered to stay a good while, that the coldness of the water, might condense the included liquor.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 18 March 1663, ‘The lord viscount Brouncker, Sir Robert Moray, and Mr. Bruce brought in an account of the observations and experiments, which they had lately made upon the river of Chatham; and his lordship promised to add to them some notes of this own. The paper was ordered to be registered’ (Birch 1:208). The figures and the text are printed in Birch 1:208-12.
Related fellows
William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker of Lyons (1620 - 1684, British) , Mathematician
Robert Moray (1608 - 1673, British) , Natural philosopher
Robert Alexander Bruce (1839, British) , Inventor
Robert Moray (1608 - 1673, British) , Natural philosopher
Robert Alexander Bruce (1839, British) , Inventor
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