Water-raising engine
Date
22 July 1663
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 296mm
width (page): 196mm
width (page): 196mm
Subject
Description
Diagram with accompanying text entitled 'A brief Description made by Mr Hook, of ye water-raising Engine presented by his Highness, Prince Rupert, to ye Society, after ye way of Cavallerius his Hydrocontisterium novum'. The 'hydrocontisterium novum' was a pump invented by the Italian mathematician Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598-1647) and described in his Exercitationes geometricae sex (Bologna, 1647).
This was presented to the Royal Society on 22 July 1663 and ordered to be registered.
Copies of this image can be found in RBO/2i/281, RBO/2ii/193, RBC/2/028 and MS/776/463.
This was presented to the Royal Society on 22 July 1663 and ordered to be registered.
Copies of this image can be found in RBO/2i/281, RBO/2ii/193, RBC/2/028 and MS/776/463.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 22 July 1663, ‘Prince Rupert’s water-raising engine after the method of Cavellerius’s hydrocontisterium novum, was ordered to be tried; and a description of it was given in by Mr. Hooke, which was ordered to be registered’ (Birch 1:285). The text and figure are printed in Birch 1:286.
Related fellows
Prince Rupert (1619 - 1682, German) , Natural philosopher
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
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