Candle wick and flame
Date
16 January 1679
Creator
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p274
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 300mm
width (page): 185mm
width (page): 185mm
Subject
Description
Rough sketch of a candle wick and flame, inverted. This is associated with an experiment demonstrated at the Royal Society meeting on 16 January 1679, intending to show that the air directly encompassing a candle flame exhibited different properties from the air further away. The image is partially drawn over Robert Hooke's draft minutes of the meeting, now bound into the 'Hooke folio' (MS/847).
Transcription
Mr Hooke shewed also a second experiment which was the flame of a Candle soe placed between the eye and a concaue metalline speculum, that the Air which incompassed the said flame and which by Dissoluing the parts of it into its self became of a differing nature and differing refraction from that which was not satiated by the said Dissoluing. This was plainly seen by the President and Diuers others of the member [sic] present. to their satisfaction.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
For the minutes of this meeting see Thomas Birch, The History of the Royal Society of London, 4 vols (London, 1756), III, 457.
Related fellows
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
Associated place