Thermometer
Date
1701
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
Object type
Article identifier
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 213mm
width (page): 150 mm
width (page): 150 mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate depicting a thermometer, as designed by Étienne François Geoffroy, comprising: a glass bowl for the liquid (A), and a glass cylinder (D), open at each end (B, C), through which the liquid might travel.
Illustration to ‘IV. Observations upon the dissolutions and fermentation which we may call they are accompanied with a coolness of the liquors into which they pass. And of a new thermometer. Extracted out of a discourse which Mr Geoffroy, F. R. S. […]’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 22, issue 274 (September 1701).
Original illustration first shown at a meeting of the Royal Society on 11 December 1700, recorded in Record Book Original of the Royal Society RBO/9/40, and MS/366/3/8.
Étienne François Geoffroy (1672-1731) French physician and chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1698.
Illustration to ‘IV. Observations upon the dissolutions and fermentation which we may call they are accompanied with a coolness of the liquors into which they pass. And of a new thermometer. Extracted out of a discourse which Mr Geoffroy, F. R. S. […]’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 22, issue 274 (September 1701).
Original illustration first shown at a meeting of the Royal Society on 11 December 1700, recorded in Record Book Original of the Royal Society RBO/9/40, and MS/366/3/8.
Étienne François Geoffroy (1672-1731) French physician and chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1698.
Related fellows
Etienne Francois Geoffroy (1672 - 1731, French)
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