Refraction of air
Date
1699
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
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Article identifier
Material
Technique
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate depicting an instrument designed to measure the refractive power of air, by John Lowthorp.
Illustration to ‘I. An experiment of the refraction of the air made at the command of the Royal Society, Mar 28. 1699’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 21, issue 257 (October 1699). Hand drawn illustration of the same instrument by Henry Hunt can be found in MS/131/139.
John Lowthorp (c.1659-1724) British Clergyman, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1702.
Illustration to ‘I. An experiment of the refraction of the air made at the command of the Royal Society, Mar 28. 1699’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 21, issue 257 (October 1699). Hand drawn illustration of the same instrument by Henry Hunt can be found in MS/131/139.
John Lowthorp (c.1659-1724) British Clergyman, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1702.
Related fellows
John Lowthorp (1654 - 1724, British
English) , Clergyman
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