Comparative weighing scale
Date
16 January 1683
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p102
Dimensions
height (page): 375mm
width (page): 239mm
width (page): 239mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Robert Hooke's design of scales placed on cross beams. Hooke produced a model at the meeting on 16 January 1684, but it was judged as inaccurate.
This image is copied from RBO/6/141.
This image is copied from RBO/6/141.
Transcription
I shewed a New Instrument I had invented by which immediately and without any trouble the Comparative weights of any two body's given might be found if at least the Beam were big enough to bear them, or any Aliquot or Aliquant part of any ponderable body.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
Hooke was absent at the beginning of the meeting on 16 January 1684, but it seems that he attended later, as it is recorded that he ‘shewed a way how to give the proportions of two weights one to another, the apparatus being not designed for an accurate trial’ (Birch 4:250).
The paper with the figure are printed in Robert Hooke, Philosophical Experiments and Observations, ed. by W. Derham (london: 1726), pp. 121-22.
The paper with the figure are printed in Robert Hooke, Philosophical Experiments and Observations, ed. by W. Derham (london: 1726), pp. 121-22.
Related fellows
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher