Glass vial and thermometer
Date
18 March 1663
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p406
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 320mm
width (page): 200mm
width (page): 200mm
Subject
Description
A white glass vial used in an experiment to determine the relative weight of salt and fresh water. This was one of a series of experiments conducted by William Brouncker, Robert Moray and Alexander Bruce on the river in Chatham in March 1663, and reported to the Royal Society on 18 March 1663.
Figure of a sealed-up thermometer, which was sunk to the middle and bottom of water at Chatham and measured for its condensation of liquor. No condensation was detected, from which it was judged by Fellows William Brouncker, Robert Moray and Alexander Bruce that the temperature of the water was the same at every level of the water. The result was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 18 March 1663.
These images are copied from RBO/2i/212-13. Another copy of the thermometer can be found at MS/215/091.
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.
Figure of a sealed-up thermometer, which was sunk to the middle and bottom of water at Chatham and measured for its condensation of liquor. No condensation was detected, from which it was judged by Fellows William Brouncker, Robert Moray and Alexander Bruce that the temperature of the water was the same at every level of the water. The result was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 18 March 1663.
These images are copied from RBO/2i/212-13. Another copy of the thermometer can be found at MS/215/091.
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 18 March 1663, ‘The lord viscount Brouncker, Sir Robert Moray, and Mr. Bruce brought in an account of the observations and experiments, which they had lately made upon the river of Chatham; and his lordship promised to add to them some notes of this own. The paper was ordered to be registered’ (Birch 1:208). The figures and the text are printed in Birch 1:208-12.
The figure of the glass vial was also printed in R. Hooke, Philosophical experiments and observations (London, 1726), p. 100.
The figure of the glass vial was also printed in R. Hooke, Philosophical experiments and observations (London, 1726), p. 100.
Related fellows
William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker of Lyons (1620 - 1684, British) , Mathematician
Robert Moray (1608 - 1673, British) , Natural philosopher
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
Robert Moray (1608 - 1673, British) , Natural philosopher
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
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