Line drawing of a barometer
Date
10 February 1686
Creator
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 319mm
width (page): 194mm
width (page): 194mm
Subject
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Description
A tiny line drawing (31 x 4 mm) of a design of a barometer by Robert Hooke in the margin of the text. Hooke read his paper at the meeting of the Royal Society on 10 February 1686. Later on, at the meeting on 23 June 1686, Denis Papin, Edmond Halley and Henry Hunt were asked to make an actual barometer after Hooke's design. Hooke's paper was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 16, no. 185 (November and December 1686).
Object history
10 February 1686, 'Then Mr Hooke read his discourse of Improvement of the Barometer, by takeing of the inequality of the pressure of the coloured liquor, in Mr Hubin's way, he was desired to give it in, to be registered; he desired to be excused at that time but promised shortly to bring in an account thereof' (JBO/8/29).
23 June 1686, 'Ordered that Mr Papin, Mr Hunt and E. Halley, do consider of the means of makeing and filling a Barometer after the manner proposed by Mr Hook, and that they get one made for the Society' (JBO/8/79). Cf. for the same date: ‘It was ordered that Dr. Papin, Mr. Halley, and Mr. Hunt do consider of the means of making and filling a barometer after the manner proposed by Mr. Hooke; and that they get one made for the Society’ (Birch 4:491).
R. Hooke, ‘A description of an invention, whereby the divisions of the barometer may be enlarged in any given proportions’, Phil. Trans., vol. 16, no. 185 (November and December 1686), pp. 241-44, fig. 1.
23 June 1686, 'Ordered that Mr Papin, Mr Hunt and E. Halley, do consider of the means of makeing and filling a Barometer after the manner proposed by Mr Hook, and that they get one made for the Society' (JBO/8/79). Cf. for the same date: ‘It was ordered that Dr. Papin, Mr. Halley, and Mr. Hunt do consider of the means of making and filling a barometer after the manner proposed by Mr. Hooke; and that they get one made for the Society’ (Birch 4:491).
R. Hooke, ‘A description of an invention, whereby the divisions of the barometer may be enlarged in any given proportions’, Phil. Trans., vol. 16, no. 185 (November and December 1686), pp. 241-44, fig. 1.
Related fellows
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742, British) , Astronomer
Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742, British) , Astronomer
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