Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16883

    Instrument for experimenting with acidic spirits

    Date
    21 June 1699
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p4
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 194mm
    width (page): 150mm
    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).
    Object history
    21 June 1699, 'A Letter from Monsr Geoffry, 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.
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