Instruments for sounding the depth of the sea and bringing samples of water to the surface
Date
30 September 1663
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 363mm
width (page): 186mm
width (page): 186mm
Subject
Description
Two figures accompanying a paper entitled, 'The wayes which I prefer before severall other Contrivances which I thought of, for sounding ye Depth of the Sea and fetching up water from any Depth are these. Mr Hook'.
Figure 1 shows an instrument for sounding depths, and figure 2 shows an instrument for fetching water from any depth in the sea. A small additional slip of paper showing the lower part of the instrument has been attached to the bottom of the drawing with red sealing wax.
These figures were discussed at the meeting of the Royal Society on 30 September 1663, and also entered into the Society's Register Book. They were printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 1, no. 9 (February 1666) and again in vol. 2, no. 24 (April 1667).
Copies of these images can be found at RBO/2i/301-02, RBO/2ii/203r-v, RBC/2/093-04, MS/76/482-83 and Cl.P/20/35/002-03.
Figure 1 shows an instrument for sounding depths, and figure 2 shows an instrument for fetching water from any depth in the sea. A small additional slip of paper showing the lower part of the instrument has been attached to the bottom of the drawing with red sealing wax.
These figures were discussed at the meeting of the Royal Society on 30 September 1663, and also entered into the Society's Register Book. They were printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 1, no. 9 (February 1666) and again in vol. 2, no. 24 (April 1667).
Copies of these images can be found at RBO/2i/301-02, RBO/2ii/203r-v, RBC/2/093-04, MS/76/482-83 and Cl.P/20/35/002-03.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 30 September 1663, ‘Mr. Hooke brought in the description of the new ways contrived by him for sounding the depth of the sea without a line, and fetching water from any depth; which were ordered to be registered’ (Birch 1:307). Text and figure printed in Birch 1:307-08.
Printed in R. Hooke, 'Appendix to the Directions for Seamen, bound for far Voyages', Phil. Trans., vol. 1, no. 9 (February 1666), pp. 147-49; and again in 'Directions for observations and experiments to be made by masters of ships, pilots and other fit persons in their sea voyages', Phil. Trans., vol. 2, no. 24 (April 1667), pp. 433-48.
Printed in R. Hooke, 'Appendix to the Directions for Seamen, bound for far Voyages', Phil. Trans., vol. 1, no. 9 (February 1666), pp. 147-49; and again in 'Directions for observations and experiments to be made by masters of ships, pilots and other fit persons in their sea voyages', Phil. Trans., vol. 2, no. 24 (April 1667), pp. 433-48.
Related fellows
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
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