Specific weights of lead and tin
Date
15 January 1680
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p163
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 322mm
width (page): 205mm
width (page): 205mm
Subject
Description
Table of specific weights of lead, tin lead and tin, measured at the meeting of the Royal Society on 15 January 1680.
This is a copy of JBO/6/222.
This is a copy of JBO/6/222.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 15 January 1680, ‘The experiment shewed was the examination of the specific weights of tin, and a mixture of equal parts of lead and tin; which was done by weighing them first in the air, and then in the water, and taking notice of their particular gravities’ (Birch 4:3). Details of the specific gravity are also printed there.
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