A thin glass tube
Date
7 May 1662
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
58a
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 310mm
width (page): 198mm
width (page): 198mm
Subject
Content object
Description
A small pen drawing (height 30 mm; width 8 mm) in the margin of a thin glass tube with a globe at the bottom, which Robert Boyle produced at the meeting of the Royal Society on 7 May 1662.
Transcription
Mr Boyle produced a Glass # to try the difference of strength of corrosive liquours.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 7 May 1662, ‘Mr. Boyle produced a glass for trying the difference of the strength of corrosive liquors’ (Birch 1:82). A small figure is also reproduced in Birch (a thin glass tube with a globe at the bottom, with the symbol of mercury).
Related fellows
Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691, British) , Natural philosopher
Associated place