Barometer

Date

25 January 1671

Object type

manuscript
diagram

Archive reference number

LBO/28/127

Manuscript page number

p401

Material

ink
paper

Dimensions

height (page): 320mm
width (page): 198mm

Subject

Physics
> Vacuum physics
> Pneumatics

Content object

scientific environment & equipment
> instrument

Description

Figure of a barometer for a Toricellian experiment in Robert Boyle's pneumatic machine. Giuseppe Corcilli, a Neapolitan physician, wrote to Henry Oldenburg with queries about Boyle's Toricellian experiment in the air pump.

Copied from EL/C1/104/001.

Related fellows

Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691, British) , Natural philosopher

Associated place

<The World>
> Europe
> France