Experiment demonstrating refraction
Date
?11 February 1662
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 306mm
width (page): 201mm
width (page): 201mm
Subject
Description
A figure showing a large cylindrical glass full of water with a piece of ice floating in it, and the position of the observer's eye. This accompanies a paper entitled 'Of the Refraction of Ice' by Robert Hooke. The paper was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 11 February 1663.
Copies of this image can be found at RBO/2i/150, RBO/2ii/113, RBC/1/337, MS/776/346 and RB/1/20/256.
Copies of this image can be found at RBO/2i/150, RBO/2ii/113, RBC/1/337, MS/776/346 and RB/1/20/256.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 11 February 1663, ‘An experiment of the refraction of ice was made by Mr. Hooke and an account of it given by him in writing, which was read, and ordered to be registered. He was desired to try it the next day with a glass of the same figure with the piece used by him in the experiment of this day’ (Birch 1:193).
Printed in Robert Hooke, Philosophical Experiments and Observations (London, 1726), pp. 24-26, with a much altered figure at p. 25.
Printed in Robert Hooke, Philosophical Experiments and Observations (London, 1726), pp. 24-26, with a much altered figure at p. 25.
Related fellows
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
Associated place