Icicles
Date
14 January 1685
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p122
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 375mm
width (page): 239mm
width (page): 239mm
Subject
Content object
Description
At the meeting of 14 January 1685, Martin Lister read a paper about freezing different types of water. The drawing marked + is an icicle of natron, and the second figure denoted with an x is an icicle of sea water. Lister notes that the sea water icicles, figured in oblong squares, are more brittle and transparent. The paper and the figures were printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society vol. 15, no. 167 (January 1685).
Transcription
The Icicles of the Natron was prettily figured ass is Represented in the Margin +: The Icicles of the Sea Water were also figured in Oblong Squares; as is Designed x, and more brittle and Transparent
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
At the meeting of 14 January 1685, ‘There was read a paper of experiments by Dr. Lister about the freezing of several liquors and the difference between common fresh-water ice and that of sea-water: as also a probable conjecture about the original of the nitre of Egypt: which paper was ordered to be registered’ (Birch 4:357).
Printed in M. Lister, ‘Some experiments about freezing, and the difference betwixt common fresh water ice, and that of sea water’, Phil. Trans. vol. 15, no. 167 (January 1685), pp. 836-38.
Printed in M. Lister, ‘Some experiments about freezing, and the difference betwixt common fresh water ice, and that of sea water’, Phil. Trans. vol. 15, no. 167 (January 1685), pp. 836-38.
Related fellows
Martin Lister (1639 - 1712, British) , Physician
Associated place