Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16029

    Diagram of inclining pendulum

    Date
    21 November 1666
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p295
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 326mm
    width (page): 203mm
    Subject
    Description
    Diagram of inclining pendulum intended to accompany text entitled 'An account of Pendulums by Mr Hook, Nov. 21 1666' (Cl.P/20/044).

    This image is from a partial copy of the Register Book now among the Boyle papers. It is copied (rotated 90 degrees) from RBO/3/166, which is in turn copied from Cl.P/20/41/009.
    Object history
    At the meeting of the Royal Society on 21 November 1666, ‘Mr. Hooke’s account of inclining pendulums was read, and order’d to be register’d’ (Birch 2:126). This account and reference to the figure, but not the figure itself, are printed in Birch 2:126-27.
    Related fellows
    Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691, British) , Natural philosopher
    Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
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