Design of a clock on an inclined plane
Date
22 May 1684
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
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Manuscript page number
vol9 p334
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 304mm
width (page): 180mm
width (page): 180mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Design of a clock on an inclined plane by Maurice Wheeler, rector of Sibbertoft in Northamptonshire, originally reported at the Oxford Philosophical Society. It was then reported by Joshua Walker to Francis Aston, and read to the Royal Society on 11 June 1684. The design was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 14, no. 161 (July 1684).
This is copied from LBO/9/256-57.
This is copied from LBO/9/256-57.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 11 June 1684, ‘A letter of Mr. Joshua Walker to Mr. Aston, dated at Oxford, June 4, 1674, was read, giving an account of the proceedings of the Philosophical Society there […]. That a description had been given in by Mr. Wheeler, of a watch, which was to move upon a declivity like that at Greenwich’ (Birch 4:302).
Figs for Maurice Wheeler, ‘Concerning a movement that measures time after a peculiar manner, with an account of the reasons for the said motion’, Phil. Trans. vol. 14, no. 161 (July 1684), pp. 647-65.
Figs for Maurice Wheeler, ‘Concerning a movement that measures time after a peculiar manner, with an account of the reasons for the said motion’, Phil. Trans. vol. 14, no. 161 (July 1684), pp. 647-65.
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