Barometer, geometric diagrams
Date
1686
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
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height (page): 213mm
width (page): 150mm
width (page): 150mm
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Description
Five figures from issue 185 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Figure I. Glass cylinder from a barometer designed by Robert Hooke. Illustration to ‘A description of an invention, whereby the divisions of the barometer may be enlarged in any given proportions; produced before the Royal Society’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 16, issue 185 (December 1686).
Figures II-V. Geometric diagrams illustrating ‘Accounts of books. (I.) Le grand & fameux probleme de la quadrature du cercle resolu geometriuement par le cercle & la ligne droite, par Monsieur Mallement de Messange. A Paris, in 12° 1686. With a refutation of the same, by mr. D. Cluverius. Reg. S. Soc. II Voiage de Siam des Peres Jesuites envoyez par le Roy aux indes & a la Chine. A Paris 1686. 4°’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 16, issue 185 (December 1686).
Robert Hooke (1635–1703), British natural philosopher, was a Founding Fellow of the Royal Society.
Figure I. Glass cylinder from a barometer designed by Robert Hooke. Illustration to ‘A description of an invention, whereby the divisions of the barometer may be enlarged in any given proportions; produced before the Royal Society’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 16, issue 185 (December 1686).
Figures II-V. Geometric diagrams illustrating ‘Accounts of books. (I.) Le grand & fameux probleme de la quadrature du cercle resolu geometriuement par le cercle & la ligne droite, par Monsieur Mallement de Messange. A Paris, in 12° 1686. With a refutation of the same, by mr. D. Cluverius. Reg. S. Soc. II Voiage de Siam des Peres Jesuites envoyez par le Roy aux indes & a la Chine. A Paris 1686. 4°’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 16, issue 185 (December 1686).
Robert Hooke (1635–1703), British natural philosopher, was a Founding Fellow of the Royal Society.
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Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
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