Pneumatic engine
Date
June 1662
Creator
Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 2006, Dutch) , Natural philosopher
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p5
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 210mm
width (page): 150mm
width (page): 150mm
Subject
Content object
Description
A figure of a glass phial with a long neck inverted in a glass vessel, for conducting Torricellian experiments in an air pump. This was the apparatus used by Christian Huygens, as described in his letter of June 1662 to Robert Moray. The letter was translated and read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 30 July 1662.
There are copies of this figure at LBO/1/036 and LBC/1/040.
There are copies of this figure at LBO/1/036 and LBC/1/040.
Transcription
AB est le Recipient de verre, environ de la hauteur d'un pied ouvert par en bas et attachè avec du ciment dans l'escuelle de cuivre CD qui tient a la machine, dans ce recipient est enfermè la banquet EN, qui contient de l'eau fraische jusqu'en F, et la phiole de verre GLH a long col, remplie de mesme eau et enfoncee avec le bout ouvert dans cellle du banquet.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 30 July 1662, ‘The translation of Monsieur Huygens’s letter of July 14, 1662, to Sir Robert Moray by the amanuensis, was read by him, and ordered to be entered in the letter book’ (Birch 1:102).
Related fellows
Christiaen Huygens (1629 - 1695, Dutch) , Natural philosopher
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