Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15232

    A new lamp

    Date
    1681
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p5
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 298mm
    width (page): 191mm
    Subject
    Description
    This lamp is an improvement on the Lamp of Cardan.

    The manuscript text is in French. The English version was printed in Philosophical Collections, 2 (1681), pp. 33-34, with the image and the exact same description.
    Object history
    Published in English as Fig. 6 in Robert Boyle, 'A New Lamp', in Philosophical Collections, 2 (1681), pp. 33-34.
    Related fellows
    Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691, British) , Natural philosopher
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