Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15089

    Glass instrument

    Date
    10 April 1661
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p17
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 313mm
    width (page): 198mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    A small figure (height 11 mm; width 9 mm) of crooked glasses with bubbles at the end, which the Royal Society's amanuensis was ordered to make on 10 April 1661.

    This is copied from JBO/1/015.
    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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