Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18860

    Refraction of air

    Date
    1699
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    The Royal Society, Publisher
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    Material
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    Subject
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    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.
    Related fellows
    John Lowthorp (1654 - 1724, British English) , Clergyman
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