Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15317

    Refraction of liquors

    Date
    1698
    Creator
    Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742, British) , Astronomer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p1
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 300mm
    width (page): 181mm
    Subject
    Description
    Edmond Halley went through the previous journal books and the rough minutes of the Royal Society to find that the experiments done to prove the different refractions of liquors did not agree. He therefore decided to do them again.

    The text refers to several images which are not included in the document anymore. This drawing is probably a sketch of the angle of a liquid on a surface.
    Transcription
    Halley about refracting Liquors
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
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    Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742, British) , Astronomer
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