Double scale
Date
9 January 1684
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p98
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 374mm
width (page): 239mm
width (page): 239mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Robert Hooke's design of a scale by which to find any part of any given weight.
Hooke had shown a model of this design at the meeting on 9 January 1684, when he was ordered to have a better model made.
This image is copied from RBO/6/136.
Hooke had shown a model of this design at the meeting on 9 January 1684, when he was ordered to have a better model made.
This image is copied from RBO/6/136.
Transcription
I shewed the Module of a Beam together with the way whereby readily to find by it any Aliquot or Aliquant part of any ponderous body given.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
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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