Statue, water engine, geometric diagrams
Date
1687
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
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Description
Five figures from issue 186 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Figure I. Johann Weikhard Freiherr von Valvasor’s method of statue making, showing a statue cast and clamp. Illustration to ‘Part of a Letter written in Latin to Thomas Gale, S.T.D. Secret. Reg. Soc. From Carniola, by Mr. John Weichard Valvasor liber Baro; containing the Method of casting Statues in Metal; together with an invention of his for making such cast Statues of extraordinary thinness […]’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 16, issue 186 (March 1687). Original illustration was first shown at a meeting of the Society on 1 December 1686, recorded in Letter Book Original of the Royal Society LBO/10/125, and copied into Letter Book Copy LBC/10 p460.
Figure II. Water engine, designed by Denis Papin, illustrating ‘The answer of Dr. Papin to several objections made by Mr. Nuis against his engine for raising water by the rarefaction of the air, whereof a description is given in No. 178. of these Transactions’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 16, issue 186 (March 1687). Original illustration can be found in Classified Papers of the Royal Society CLP/18i/46.
Figures III-V. Geometric diagrams illustrating ‘A discourse concerning the measure of the airs resistance to bodies moved in it’ by John Wallis in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 16, issue 186 (March 1687).
Johann Weikhard Freiherr von Valvasor (1641-1693), Austrian natural historian, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1687; Denis Papin (1647-1713), French natural philosopher, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1680, and; John Wallis (1616–1703), British mathematician, was a Founding Fellow of the Royal Society.
Figure I. Johann Weikhard Freiherr von Valvasor’s method of statue making, showing a statue cast and clamp. Illustration to ‘Part of a Letter written in Latin to Thomas Gale, S.T.D. Secret. Reg. Soc. From Carniola, by Mr. John Weichard Valvasor liber Baro; containing the Method of casting Statues in Metal; together with an invention of his for making such cast Statues of extraordinary thinness […]’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 16, issue 186 (March 1687). Original illustration was first shown at a meeting of the Society on 1 December 1686, recorded in Letter Book Original of the Royal Society LBO/10/125, and copied into Letter Book Copy LBC/10 p460.
Figure II. Water engine, designed by Denis Papin, illustrating ‘The answer of Dr. Papin to several objections made by Mr. Nuis against his engine for raising water by the rarefaction of the air, whereof a description is given in No. 178. of these Transactions’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 16, issue 186 (March 1687). Original illustration can be found in Classified Papers of the Royal Society CLP/18i/46.
Figures III-V. Geometric diagrams illustrating ‘A discourse concerning the measure of the airs resistance to bodies moved in it’ by John Wallis in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 16, issue 186 (March 1687).
Johann Weikhard Freiherr von Valvasor (1641-1693), Austrian natural historian, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1687; Denis Papin (1647-1713), French natural philosopher, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1680, and; John Wallis (1616–1703), British mathematician, was a Founding Fellow of the Royal Society.
Related fellows
Freiherr von Johann Weikhard Valvasor (1641 - 1693, Austrian) , Historian
Denis Papin (1647, French) , Natural philosopher
John Wallis (1616 - 1703, British) , Mathematician
Denis Papin (1647, French) , Natural philosopher
John Wallis (1616 - 1703, British) , Mathematician
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