Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.17372

    Frozen urine

    Date
    10 December 1662
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    After
    Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p261
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 320mm
    width (page): 200mm
    Subject
    Description
    Drawing of the branched structure of frozen urine observed by Robert Hooke and communicated to the meeting of the Royal Society on 17 December 1662. It was printed in Hooke's Micrographia (1665), scheme VIII.

    This is copied from RBO/2i/060. The original drawing by Hooke is at Cl.P/20/6. Another copy can be found in MS/215/037.

    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 17 December 1662, ‘Mr. Hooke communicated likewise some remarks on the figures in frozen urine, frozen water, and snow; and those of the small shootings of hoar-frosts; which were ordered to be registered’ (Birch 1:154).

    Published as Figure 1 of Scheme VIII in Robert Hooke, Micrographia (London, 1665), described on pp. 88-91.
    Related fellows
    Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
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