Hygroscope and geometric diagram
Date
1677
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
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Article identifier
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 213mm
width (page): 150mm
width (page): 150mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Two figures from issue 136 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Figure I. A hygroscope, or water pump, used to reduce water levels in the New Canal of River Fleet. Illustration to ‘A letter of Mr. John Conyers, citizen of London; the author of the hygroscope described in Numb. 129; in which letter is contained a draught and description of a very useful and cheap pump, contrived by the said Mr. Conyers’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 12, issue 136 (20 November 1676).
Figure II. A diagram illustrating a theory of the motion of light by ‘M. Romer’. Illustration to ‘A demonstration concerning the motion of light, communicated from Paris, in the journal des scavans, and here made English’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 12, issue 136 (20 November 1676).
Figure I. A hygroscope, or water pump, used to reduce water levels in the New Canal of River Fleet. Illustration to ‘A letter of Mr. John Conyers, citizen of London; the author of the hygroscope described in Numb. 129; in which letter is contained a draught and description of a very useful and cheap pump, contrived by the said Mr. Conyers’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 12, issue 136 (20 November 1676).
Figure II. A diagram illustrating a theory of the motion of light by ‘M. Romer’. Illustration to ‘A demonstration concerning the motion of light, communicated from Paris, in the journal des scavans, and here made English’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 12, issue 136 (20 November 1676).
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