Pumping mechanism of the heart
Date
18 October 1685
Creator
Unknown, Artist
After
Salomon Reisel (1624 - 1701, German) , Physician
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
vol10 p358
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 307mm
width (page): 181mm
width (page): 181mm
Subject
Description
A figure illustrating the pumping mechanism of the heart, as described by Salomon Reisel, member of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum and court physician to the Duke of Wuerttemberg, in his letter dated 8 October 1685.
In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 15, no. 173 (July 1685), Denis Papin had shown an image of his perpetual fountain as a 'riddle' for others to guess its design. This was a way to claim priority. In his letter of 8 October 1685, Reisel conjectured its pumping mechanism, which he also likened to a pulsating heart.
This is copied from LBO/10/283.
In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 15, no. 173 (July 1685), Denis Papin had shown an image of his perpetual fountain as a 'riddle' for others to guess its design. This was a way to claim priority. In his letter of 8 October 1685, Reisel conjectured its pumping mechanism, which he also likened to a pulsating heart.
This is copied from LBO/10/283.
Transcription
Qua machina ut eo propius accedat ad humani pulsus effigiem formetur cor, cum suo septo flexile ex coris, cum vena Cava A, et pulmonali B, arteria pulmonali C et Aorta D, et haec quidem Conjungenda per Circulum cum Vena cava: sed ut omnia vasa suis valvulis seu platismatis sint formanda, vena Cava et pulmonaris imittentibus, Ateria vero magna et pulmonaris emittentibus.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 13 January 1686, ‘Dr. Papin read a paper of his, containing an account of the contrivance of his water-engine for circulating water; which was ordered to be registered. He read likewise his thoughts concerning the water-engine at London-bridge, which raises water without intermission. He affirmed, that though the inward contrivance of that pump was concealed, he could make another, which should have the same effect, and produced a scheme of his invention’ (Birch 4:452).
20 January 1686, ‘Dr. Solomon Reiselius’s letter to Mr. Aston, dated at Stutgard, Octob. 8, 1685, concerning the Wirtemberg syphon, was read; whereby it appeared, that Dr. Papin had exactly conjectured at the composition of the same syphon. This letter confirmed likewise the writer’s thoughts of Dr. Papin’s engine for circulating-water, with proposals of his own about doing the same thing: which were referred to Dr. Papin to consider and answer’ (Birch 4:453).
3 February 1686, ‘Dr. Reiselius’s letter concerning the Wirtemberg syphon was read a second time; as also Dr. Papin’s answer to it in Latin’ (Birch 4:455).
20 January 1686, ‘Dr. Solomon Reiselius’s letter to Mr. Aston, dated at Stutgard, Octob. 8, 1685, concerning the Wirtemberg syphon, was read; whereby it appeared, that Dr. Papin had exactly conjectured at the composition of the same syphon. This letter confirmed likewise the writer’s thoughts of Dr. Papin’s engine for circulating-water, with proposals of his own about doing the same thing: which were referred to Dr. Papin to consider and answer’ (Birch 4:453).
3 February 1686, ‘Dr. Reiselius’s letter concerning the Wirtemberg syphon was read a second time; as also Dr. Papin’s answer to it in Latin’ (Birch 4:455).
Related fellows
Francis Aston (1644 - 1715, British) , Natural philosopher
Denis Papin (1647, French) , Natural philosopher
Denis Papin (1647, French) , Natural philosopher
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