Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15082

    Glass instrument

    Date
    10 April 1661
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p15
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 310mm
    width (page): 199mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    A small figure (height 10 mm; width 4mm) of crooked glasses with bubbles at the end, which the amanuensis of the Royal Society was ordered to make on 10 April 1661.
    Object history
    At the meeting of the Royal Society on 10 April 1661, ‘The amanuensis was ordered to make several crooked glasses with bubbles at the end’ (Birch 1:21).
    Related fellows
    William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker of Lyons (1620 - 1684, British) , Mathematician
    Robert Moray (1608 - 1673, British) , Natural philosopher
    Paul Neile (British) , Astronomer
    Associated place
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