Compression of air under water
Date
29 January 1672
Creator
Richard Townley (1629 - 1707, British) , Mathematician
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Manuscript page number
p3
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 217mm
width (page): 157mm
width (page): 157mm
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Description
A diagram indicating the correlation of the depth of water and the compression of air, based on the table published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 6, no. 73 (1671), pp. 2192-95. From an extract of a letter from Richard Towneley to John Collins dated 29 January 1672, in which he argued that the curve ccBG was a hyperbola, rather than a parabola, as described by William Brouncker in Philosophical Transactions, vol. 6, no. 75 (1671), pp. 2239-40.
A copy of this diagram can be found in LBO/5/153.
A copy of this diagram can be found in LBO/5/153.
Related fellows
John Collins (1625 - 1683, British) , Mathematician, Mathematician
William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker of Lyons (1620 - 1684, British) , Mathematician
William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker of Lyons (1620 - 1684, British) , Mathematician
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