Shooting by rarefaction
Date
3 March 1686
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 139mm
width (page): 180mm
width (page): 180mm
Subject
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Description
A sketch of an instrument to shoot a piece of lead (of two ounces) by exhausting air from the tube. This experiment was shown to the meeting of the Royal Society on 3 March 1686, and published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 16, no. 179 (1686).
Papin had worked with Christian Huygens and Robert Boyle on their airpumps, and developed various set-ups to try further experiments using airpumps.
Papin had worked with Christian Huygens and Robert Boyle on their airpumps, and developed various set-ups to try further experiments using airpumps.
Transcription
In pencil: Fig. 5
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 3 March 1686, ‘Dr. Papin shewed an experiment of shooting lead of two ounces by the irruption of the air into a cylinder, out of which it had been exhausted by his air-pump: which succeeded very well, the lead being cast with a considerable force. He also gave in a paper of the same’ (Birch 4:463).
The account was registered with the legend but without the image at RBO/6/302.
D. Papin, ‘An experiment of shooting by the rarefaction of the air’, Phil. Trans., vol. 16, no. 179 (January and February 1686), pp. 21-22.
The account was registered with the legend but without the image at RBO/6/302.
D. Papin, ‘An experiment of shooting by the rarefaction of the air’, Phil. Trans., vol. 16, no. 179 (January and February 1686), pp. 21-22.
Related fellows
Denis Papin (1647, French) , Natural philosopher
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