Detail of clockwork
Date
25 May 1711
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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Manuscript page number
p49
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Dimensions
height (page): 79mm
width (page): 80mm
width (page): 80mm
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Description
Drawing on separate piece of paper stuck to the page, relating to Richard Waller's objections to Denis Papin's proposal for improving a clock, as discussed in the meetings of the Royal Society in June and July 1711.
Object history
28 June 1711, 'Mr Waller’s paper of some Remarks on Dr Papins new way of improving Clockwork was read: In which he gave his reasons for dissenting from the Doctor’s Proposal of a continually circulating Fly or Balance the same way, objecting some uncertainties as he imagined in that way from the unequal opposition of the air, the increasing velocity of the said Balance, which he apprehended not sufficiently provided for, etc. He also shew’d some contrivances of the late Dr Hooke; and gave an explication of an Improvement of Clockwork, published by the said Dr Hooke in one of his quarto Tracts. Dr Papin desired this Paper to consider of the objections' (JBO/11/233).
12 July 1711, 'A paper of Mr Wallers in reply to Dr Papin’s Answer to his objections concerning the Improvement of Clockwork was read; which Dr Papin took with him to consider of' (JBO/11/237).
12 July 1711, 'A paper of Mr Wallers in reply to Dr Papin’s Answer to his objections concerning the Improvement of Clockwork was read; which Dr Papin took with him to consider of' (JBO/11/237).
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