Instrument for finding the force of falling bodies
Date
18 February 1663
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p257
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 326mm
width (page): 203mm
width (page): 203mm
Subject
Content object
Description
A figure accompanying Robert Hooke's paper titled 'A description of the Instrument for finding the force of falling bodies', which was read at a meeting of the Royal Society on 18 February 1663.
ABC: pedestal for the scale.
DE: a double beam of a scale, designed to let a steel ball, F, fall from a height onto a steel plate, G.
H: counterpoise on the scale, IK.
L: a small spring with a stay, M, to detect whether the ball has moved the scale.
This image is from a partial copy of the Register Book (RBO/2ii/115; RBO/2i/151) now among the Boyle papers. The original drawing by Hooke is at Cl.P/20/12/001. Other copies can be found at MS/776/347, MS/215/073 and RBC/1/339.
ABC: pedestal for the scale.
DE: a double beam of a scale, designed to let a steel ball, F, fall from a height onto a steel plate, G.
H: counterpoise on the scale, IK.
L: a small spring with a stay, M, to detect whether the ball has moved the scale.
This image is from a partial copy of the Register Book (RBO/2ii/115; RBO/2i/151) now among the Boyle papers. The original drawing by Hooke is at Cl.P/20/12/001. Other copies can be found at MS/776/347, MS/215/073 and RBC/1/339.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 18 February 1663, ‘[Hooke's] account of the force of falling bodies was read, and ordered to be registered’ (Birch 1:195). The text and figure are reproduced in Birch 1:195-97.
This figure was printed in Plate 1 from Robert Hooke, Posthumous Works, ed. by Richard Waller (London: S. Smith and B. Walford, 1705), after p. 126, fig. 1.
This figure was printed in Plate 1 from Robert Hooke, Posthumous Works, ed. by Richard Waller (London: S. Smith and B. Walford, 1705), after p. 126, fig. 1.
Related fellows
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691, British) , Natural philosopher
Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691, British) , Natural philosopher
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