Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15584

    Instrument to measure liquids

    Date
    31 August 1669
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p4
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (page): 193mm
    width (page): 120mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Woodcut of an instrument to measure liquids in a tract, 'Nuova Bilancia de'Liquidi del Signor Fabritio Guastraferri,' from Giornale de'Litterati (31 May 1669). It was enclosed in a letter from George Cotton to Henry Oldenburg dated 31 August 1669, Rome.
    Related fellows
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Associated place
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