Furnaces and barnacle specimen
Date
1677
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 137 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Figures 1-2. Plan view of the oven house on a chicken farm, showing two entrances and fourteen ovens, and a detail view of one oven. Illustrations to ‘The manner of hatching chicken at Cairo, observed by Mr. John Gravesm sometime Professor of Astronomy at Oxford; and communicated by Sir George Ent, late President of the college of Physitians, London’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 12, issue 137 (10 February 1678). Original illustrations were first shown at a meeting of the Royal Society on 5 March 1668, available in Register Book Original of the Royal Society RBO/3/78, and copied into Register Book Copy RBC/3.
Figure 3. Barnacle shell as observed by Robert Moray in the Western Islands of Scotland. Illustrations to ‘A relation concerning barnacles, by Sr. Robert Moray, lately one of his Majesties council for the Kingdom of Scotland’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 12, issue 137 (10 February 1678). Original illustrations can be found in Classified Papers of the Royal Society CLP/15i/1, recorded in Register Book Original RBO/1/6, and copied into Register Book Copy RBC/1/6.
Figure 4. View of the furnace used at the Iron-Works at the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Illustration to ‘An account of the iron-works in the Forest of Dean, communicated by Henry Powle, Esquire’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 12, issue 137 (10 February 1678). Original illustrations were first shown at a meeting of the royal Society on 22 May 1666, available in Register Book Original RBO/3/34, Classified Papers of the Royal Society CLP/9i/17, and copied into Register Book Copy RBC/2/239.
Figures 1-2. Plan view of the oven house on a chicken farm, showing two entrances and fourteen ovens, and a detail view of one oven. Illustrations to ‘The manner of hatching chicken at Cairo, observed by Mr. John Gravesm sometime Professor of Astronomy at Oxford; and communicated by Sir George Ent, late President of the college of Physitians, London’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 12, issue 137 (10 February 1678). Original illustrations were first shown at a meeting of the Royal Society on 5 March 1668, available in Register Book Original of the Royal Society RBO/3/78, and copied into Register Book Copy RBC/3.
Figure 3. Barnacle shell as observed by Robert Moray in the Western Islands of Scotland. Illustrations to ‘A relation concerning barnacles, by Sr. Robert Moray, lately one of his Majesties council for the Kingdom of Scotland’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 12, issue 137 (10 February 1678). Original illustrations can be found in Classified Papers of the Royal Society CLP/15i/1, recorded in Register Book Original RBO/1/6, and copied into Register Book Copy RBC/1/6.
Figure 4. View of the furnace used at the Iron-Works at the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Illustration to ‘An account of the iron-works in the Forest of Dean, communicated by Henry Powle, Esquire’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 12, issue 137 (10 February 1678). Original illustrations were first shown at a meeting of the royal Society on 22 May 1666, available in Register Book Original RBO/3/34, Classified Papers of the Royal Society CLP/9i/17, and copied into Register Book Copy RBC/2/239.
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Robert Moray (1608 - 1673, British) , Diplomat
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