Instrument for mercury experiments
Date
October 1661
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p149v
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 210mm
width (page): 166mm
width (page): 166mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Figure of a bent glass tube with mercury, with its ends in vessels of water at different heights. The text is in Henry Power's hand, and is written as an objection against the funicular hypothesis of Franciscus Linus, or Line (1595-1675). Power was arguing in favour of Robert Boyle's theory that the pressure of a gas increases when the volume of the container it is held in decreases (now known as Boyle's law).
Object history
Henry Power, Experimental philosophy, in three books containing new experiments microscopical, mercurial, magnetical: with some deductions, and probable hypotheses, raised from them, in avouchment and illustration of the now famous atomical hypothesis (London: Printed by T. Roycroft, for John Martin and James Allestry, 1664).
Related fellows
Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691, British) , Natural philosopher
Henry Power (1623 - 1668, British) , Natural philosopher
Henry Power (1623 - 1668, British) , Natural philosopher
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