Smoke engine, stone specimens, geometric and astronomical diagrams
Date
1686
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
Six figures from issue 181 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Figure I. Engine designed to consume smoke made by domestic fires, by ‘Mr Dalesme’, described here by Henri Justel. Illustration to ‘An account of an engine that consumes smoak, shown lately at St. Germans fair in Pairs’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 16, issue 181 (25 May 1686). Original illustration can be found in Early Letters of the Royal Society EL/I1/91, and copied into Letter Book Original of the Royal Society LBO/31/49.
Figure II. Astronomical study depicting two new moons of Saturn, as observed by Jean Dominque Cassini. Illustration to ‘An extract of the Journal Des Scavans. Of April 22 ft. N. 1686. Giving an account of two new satellites of Saturn, discovered lately by Mr. Cassini at the Royal Observatory of Paris’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 16, issue 181 (25 May 1686).
Figures III.IV. Two stone specimens, passed by a ‘Margaret Lower’, patient of Dr. Sigismond Konig. Illustration to ‘A letter of Dr. Sigismond Konig, Physitian of Bern in Switserland, to the Royal Society, being a continuation of the history of his patient Margaret Lower; an account whereof is given in the third Philosophical Collection, of December 10th. 1681’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 16, issue 181 (25 May 1686).
Figures V-VI. Geometric diagrams illustrating Edmond Halley’s observations of the movement of mercury in a barometer. Illustrations to A discourse of the rule of the decrease of the height of the mercury in the barometer, according as places are elevated above the surface of the Earth, with an attempt to discover the true reason of the rising and falling of the mercury, upon change of weather’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 16, issue 181 (25 May 1686).
Jean Dominique Cassini (1625-1712), Italian astronomer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1672, and; Edmond Halley (1656-1742), British astronomer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1678.
Figure I. Engine designed to consume smoke made by domestic fires, by ‘Mr Dalesme’, described here by Henri Justel. Illustration to ‘An account of an engine that consumes smoak, shown lately at St. Germans fair in Pairs’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 16, issue 181 (25 May 1686). Original illustration can be found in Early Letters of the Royal Society EL/I1/91, and copied into Letter Book Original of the Royal Society LBO/31/49.
Figure II. Astronomical study depicting two new moons of Saturn, as observed by Jean Dominque Cassini. Illustration to ‘An extract of the Journal Des Scavans. Of April 22 ft. N. 1686. Giving an account of two new satellites of Saturn, discovered lately by Mr. Cassini at the Royal Observatory of Paris’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 16, issue 181 (25 May 1686).
Figures III.IV. Two stone specimens, passed by a ‘Margaret Lower’, patient of Dr. Sigismond Konig. Illustration to ‘A letter of Dr. Sigismond Konig, Physitian of Bern in Switserland, to the Royal Society, being a continuation of the history of his patient Margaret Lower; an account whereof is given in the third Philosophical Collection, of December 10th. 1681’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 16, issue 181 (25 May 1686).
Figures V-VI. Geometric diagrams illustrating Edmond Halley’s observations of the movement of mercury in a barometer. Illustrations to A discourse of the rule of the decrease of the height of the mercury in the barometer, according as places are elevated above the surface of the Earth, with an attempt to discover the true reason of the rising and falling of the mercury, upon change of weather’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 16, issue 181 (25 May 1686).
Jean Dominique Cassini (1625-1712), Italian astronomer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1672, and; Edmond Halley (1656-1742), British astronomer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1678.
Related fellows
Jean Dominique Cassini (1625 - 1712, Italian) , Astronomer, Astronomer
Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742, British) , Astronomer
Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742, British) , Astronomer
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