Diagram
Date
24 May 1708
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p14
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 292mm
width (page): 202mm
width (page): 202mm
Subject
Description
Diagram in Guido Grandi's letter to Lorenzo Magalotti on the nature and property of sound. The letter was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 6 April 1709 and was deemed fit to be printed. It was thus published as Guido Grandi, ‘De natura et proprietatibus Soni’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 26, no. 319 (January and February 1709), pp. 270-288 (figure printed at p. 285).
Object history
6 April 1709, 'A Paper of Dr Grandi concerning sound was read, it was thought proper to be printed in the Transactions' (JBO/11/162).
Guido Grandi, ‘De natura et proprietatibus Soni’, Phil. Trans. vol. 26, no. 319 (January and February 1709), pp. 270-88 (fig. at p. 285).
Guido Grandi, ‘De natura et proprietatibus Soni’, Phil. Trans. vol. 26, no. 319 (January and February 1709), pp. 270-88 (fig. at p. 285).
Related fellows
Guido Grandi (1671 - 1742, Italian) , Mathematician
Lorenzo Magalotti (1637 - 1712, Italian) , Philosopher
Lorenzo Magalotti (1637 - 1712, Italian) , Philosopher
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