Diagram of Torricellian experiments
Date
26 September 1672
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p3a
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Dimensions
height (page): 118mm
width (page): 117mm
width (page): 117mm
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Description
Figure to illustrate the height of mercury in a glass tube in a Torricellian experiment. In the diagram, AB is the surface of a container of stagnant quicksilver, and C and D are tubes where air and quicksilver are variously added. This was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 7, no. 91 (1673).
Object history
Printed as a woodcut figure in John Wallis, 'Concerning suspensions of quicksilver well purged of air, much higher than the ordinary standard in the Toricellian experiment', Phil. Trans., vol. 7, no. 91 (February 1673), pp. 5160-70 (p. 5163).
Related fellows
John Wallis (1616 - 1703, British) , Mathematician
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