Design of a double scale
Date
9 January 1684
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p136
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 365mm
width (page): 230mm
width (page): 230mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Robert Hooke's design of a scale by which to find any part of any given weight. Hooke showed a model of this design at the meeting on 9 January 1684, when he was ordered to have a better model made.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 9 January 1684, ‘Mr. Hooke shewed the contrivance of a kind of balance, which would give any desired part of a weight. The charges of one of these balances being but small, he was desired to get one well made by a good workman’ (Birch 4:245).
The account and the figure were printed in Robert Hooke, Philosophical Experiments and Observations, ed. by W. Derham (London: 1726), pp. 118-20.
The account and the figure were printed in Robert Hooke, Philosophical Experiments and Observations, ed. by W. Derham (London: 1726), pp. 118-20.
Related fellows
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
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