Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15694

    A pocket-sized level

    Date
    27 March 1686
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p1
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 307mm
    width (page): 185mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    A figure of a pocket-sized level designed by Robert Hooke, in a letter by Thomas Gale to St George Ashe dated 27 March 1686. Although this figure differs considerably from the one found among the papers of the Dublin Philosophical Society (British Library, Add. Ms. 4811, f. 117v), the principles illustrated here are the same.

    There is a copy at LBO/30/336.
    Related fellows
    Thomas Gale (1635 - 1702, British) , Antiquary
    St George Ashe (1658 - 1718, British) , Mathematician
    Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
    Associated place
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