Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15280

    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
    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.
    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
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