Geometric diagrams, wind gun, stone specimen
Date
1686
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Unknown, Engraver
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The Royal Society, Publisher
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height (page): 213mm
width (page): 150mm
width (page): 150mm
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Six figures from issue 179 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Figures I-IV. Four geometric diagrams illustrating Edmond Halley’s theory of motion, in ‘A discourse concerning gravity, and its properties, wherein the descent of heavy bodies, and the motion of projects is briefly, but fully handled […]’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society vol. 16, issue 179 (February 1686).
Figure V. Wind gun, by Denis Papin, illustrating ‘An account of an experiment shewn before the Royal Society, of shooting by the rarefaction of the air’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society vol. 16, issue 179 (February 1686).
Figure VI. Stone specimen, as observed by Salomon Reisel, illustrating ‘Part of a letter from Dr. Salomon Reisel, Chief Physician to the Duke of Wirtemburg, about an extraordinary tincture given to a stone: Stutgardia, Febr. 120. 1686’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society vol. 16, issue 179 (February 1686).
Edmond Halley (1656-1742), British astronomer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1678, and; Denis Papin (1647-1713), French natural philosopher, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1680.
Figures I-IV. Four geometric diagrams illustrating Edmond Halley’s theory of motion, in ‘A discourse concerning gravity, and its properties, wherein the descent of heavy bodies, and the motion of projects is briefly, but fully handled […]’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society vol. 16, issue 179 (February 1686).
Figure V. Wind gun, by Denis Papin, illustrating ‘An account of an experiment shewn before the Royal Society, of shooting by the rarefaction of the air’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society vol. 16, issue 179 (February 1686).
Figure VI. Stone specimen, as observed by Salomon Reisel, illustrating ‘Part of a letter from Dr. Salomon Reisel, Chief Physician to the Duke of Wirtemburg, about an extraordinary tincture given to a stone: Stutgardia, Febr. 120. 1686’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society vol. 16, issue 179 (February 1686).
Edmond Halley (1656-1742), British astronomer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1678, and; Denis Papin (1647-1713), French natural philosopher, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1680.
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