Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15565

    Barometer

    Date
    25 January 1671
    Creator
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p1
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 227mm
    width (page): 169mm
    Subject
    Physics
       > Vacuum physics
          > Pneumatics
    Description
    Figure of a barometer for a Toricellian experiment in Robert Boyle's pneumatic machine. Giuseppe Corcilli, a Neapolitan physician, wrote to Henry Oldenburg with queries about Boyle's Toricellian experiment in the air pump.

    There is a copy at LBO/28/401.
    Related fellows
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691, British) , Natural philosopher
    Associated place
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       > Europe
          > France
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