Instrument for experimenting on acidic spirits
Date
21 June 1699
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p156
Material
Dimensions
height (paper): 83mm
width (paper): 110mm
width (paper): 110mm
Subject
Content object
Description
A glass bottle designed by Wilhelm Homberg (1652-1715) of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris to experiment on acidic spirits, which was reported by Etienne François Geoffroy to the Royal Society at the meeting on 21 June 1699. It was published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 22, no. 262 (1700).
Transcription
At the top: The aerometer of Mr Homberg. Fig. 1.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
21 June 1699, 'A Letter from Monsr Geoffroy, from Paris was read, relating ye Effects of Hedera Terrestris &. about volatile saltes; with a Table to know by the Araometer the Exact measure of salts' (JBO/10/132).
E. F. Geoffroy, 'Concerning the Exact Quantity of Acid Salts Contained in Acid Spirits', Phil. Trans., vol. 22, no. 262 (1700), pp. 530-34,
E. F. Geoffroy, 'Concerning the Exact Quantity of Acid Salts Contained in Acid Spirits', Phil. Trans., vol. 22, no. 262 (1700), pp. 530-34,
Related fellows
Etienne Francois Geoffroy (1672 - 1731, French) , Physician
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