Experimental apparatus
Date
1 July 1663
Creator
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 311mm
width (page): 198mm
width (page): 198mm
Subject
Description
Experimental apparatus illustrating a paper entitled 'An Experiment try'd touching the uniting and mixing of air and water. by Mr Hook'.
The drawing is of a glass instrument with a bolt head, placed in a small glass vessel. Hooke used this instrument with an air pump for a series of experiments in July 1663, including a variation of the Torricellian experiment using water and the experiment on the 'uniting and mixing of air and water'.
Copies of this image can be found in RBO/2i/244, RBO/2ii/161, RBC/2/046, MS/215/098 and MS/776/433.
The drawing is of a glass instrument with a bolt head, placed in a small glass vessel. Hooke used this instrument with an air pump for a series of experiments in July 1663, including a variation of the Torricellian experiment using water and the experiment on the 'uniting and mixing of air and water'.
Copies of this image can be found in RBO/2i/244, RBO/2ii/161, RBC/2/046, MS/215/098 and MS/776/433.
Transcription
'A bolt head, of the shap of A containing about 6 or seven ounces of water with a neck about 6 inches long was filld top full with water and the mouth of it inverted into a small glass body of water as B, and soe convey'd into the Receiver of the evacuating engine'
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
This is a similar experiment to that depicted in Cl.P/20/19/001.
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 1 July 1663, ‘Mr. Hooke’s experiment for finding, whether the bubbles, that rise out of the water upon the emptying a receiver of the air, are real air, or only rarefied parts of water, was ordered to be repeated at the next meeting’ (Birch 1:268).
16 July 1663, ‘Mr. Hooke brought in an account in writing of two experiments tried by the society, one concerning the uniting and mixing of air and water; the other concerning the suspension of defecated water in a bolt head after the receiver had been well exhausted. This account was ordered to be registered’ (Birch 1:274-75). Figure and text printed in Birch 1:275.
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 1 July 1663, ‘Mr. Hooke’s experiment for finding, whether the bubbles, that rise out of the water upon the emptying a receiver of the air, are real air, or only rarefied parts of water, was ordered to be repeated at the next meeting’ (Birch 1:268).
16 July 1663, ‘Mr. Hooke brought in an account in writing of two experiments tried by the society, one concerning the uniting and mixing of air and water; the other concerning the suspension of defecated water in a bolt head after the receiver had been well exhausted. This account was ordered to be registered’ (Birch 1:274-75). Figure and text printed in Birch 1:275.
Related fellows
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
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