Hydraulic engine and geometrical diagrams
Date
1676
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
Object type
Article identifier
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 213mm
width (page): 150mm
width (page): 150mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Four figures from issue 128 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, including (1) A hydraulic engine for pumping and spraying water and (2-4) geometric diagrams by Edmond Halley.
Figure 1 illustrates ‘A description of an hydranlique engine, taken out of the register of the Royal Academy of the Sciences of Paris and inserted in the Journal des Scavans, 1675: Englished by the publisher, for the better examination of those that are skilfull in such engines here in England’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 11, issue 128 (25 September 1676).
Figures 2-4 illustrate ‘Methodus directa & geometri-ca, cujus ope investigantur aphelia, eccentricirates, proportionesque orbium planetarum primariorum […]’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 11, issue 128 (25 September 1676).
Figure 1 illustrates ‘A description of an hydranlique engine, taken out of the register of the Royal Academy of the Sciences of Paris and inserted in the Journal des Scavans, 1675: Englished by the publisher, for the better examination of those that are skilfull in such engines here in England’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 11, issue 128 (25 September 1676).
Figures 2-4 illustrate ‘Methodus directa & geometri-ca, cujus ope investigantur aphelia, eccentricirates, proportionesque orbium planetarum primariorum […]’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 11, issue 128 (25 September 1676).
Related fellows
Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742, British) , Astronomer
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