Weather glass used in observations in coalmines
Date
1662
Creator
Unknown, Artist
After
Henry Power (1623 - 1668, British) , Natural philosopher
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p244
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 321mm
width (page): 200mm
width (page): 200mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Drawing of a weather-glass, 2 1/2 foot long between EB. C was the position of the water, as set up at the surface; D the level of water in a coal mine no more than 35 yards deep; and F the level of water in a coal pit 68 yards deep, measured on 6 November 1662.
This report was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 3 December 1662 and printed in Henry Power, Experimental philosophy, in three books containing new experiments microscopical, mercurial, magnetical (1664), p. 175.
This image is copied from RBO/2i/045. There is another copy at RB/1/21/129.
This volume is another copy of entries of the first two volumes of the Register Book. It was given to Sir Joseph Banks by G. S. Heales Esquire of Doctor's Common on 31 May 1814.
This report was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 3 December 1662 and printed in Henry Power, Experimental philosophy, in three books containing new experiments microscopical, mercurial, magnetical (1664), p. 175.
This image is copied from RBO/2i/045. There is another copy at RB/1/21/129.
This volume is another copy of entries of the first two volumes of the Register Book. It was given to Sir Joseph Banks by G. S. Heales Esquire of Doctor's Common on 31 May 1814.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 26 November 1662, ‘Dr. Croune brought in Dr. Power’s subterraneous experiments, which were ordered to be read at the next meeting, and the amanuensis to draw large schemes thereof’ (Birch 1:130).
3 December 1662, ‘Dr. Power’s paper of subterraneous experiments, and observations made of the damps of coal-mines, were read, and afterwards registered’. (Paper reproduced in Birch 1:130-33, with this figure printed at Birch 1:133.)
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), p. 175.
3 December 1662, ‘Dr. Power’s paper of subterraneous experiments, and observations made of the damps of coal-mines, were read, and afterwards registered’. (Paper reproduced in Birch 1:130-33, with this figure printed at Birch 1:133.)
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), p. 175.
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Henry Power (1623 - 1668, British) , Natural philosopher
Henry Power (1623 - 1668, British) , Natural philosopher
Henry Power (1623 - 1668, British) , Natural philosopher
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