Mining apparatus and a monstrous colt
Date
1665
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
Object type
Article identifier
Material
Technique
Dimensions
width (paper): 214mm
height (paper): 200mm
height (paper): 200mm
Subject
Content object
Description
4 figures to issue 5 of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, including a coal mine adit, mining apparatus for breaking rock and a monstrous colt.
Fig.1 Diagram of a brick adit to a coal mine near Liege, Belgium.
Fig.2-3 Mining apparatus for breaking rocks, including an iron chisel with steeled tip for creating a hole in the rock and a fuse shaped as a double wedge cylinder to be filled with gunpowder.
Fig.4 Zoological study of the head of a monstrous colt (young male horse) in right profile showing the animal to have no nose and a single eye with four eyebrows.
Fig.1 Illustration to An account, how adits & mines are wrought at Liege without air-shafts, communicated by Sir Robert Moray published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. 1, issue 5 (3 July 1665) pp.79-82
Fig.2-3 Illustration to A way to break easily and speedily the hardest rocks, communicated by the same person, as he received it from Monsieur Du Son, the inventor published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. 1, issue 5 (3 July 1665) pp.82-85.
Fig.4 Illustration to Observables upon a monstrous head published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. 1, issue 21 (3 July 1665) pp.85-86. The original letter describing a monstrous colt and preserving samples of its body in wine was send by Robert Boyle to Henry Oldenburg on 20 June 1665 and can be found in the Early Letters of the Royal Society EL/B1/84. Recorded in the Letter Book of the Royal Society LBO/28/16 and copied in the Letter Book copy LBC/28/16.
Fig.1 Diagram of a brick adit to a coal mine near Liege, Belgium.
Fig.2-3 Mining apparatus for breaking rocks, including an iron chisel with steeled tip for creating a hole in the rock and a fuse shaped as a double wedge cylinder to be filled with gunpowder.
Fig.4 Zoological study of the head of a monstrous colt (young male horse) in right profile showing the animal to have no nose and a single eye with four eyebrows.
Fig.1 Illustration to An account, how adits & mines are wrought at Liege without air-shafts, communicated by Sir Robert Moray published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. 1, issue 5 (3 July 1665) pp.79-82
Fig.2-3 Illustration to A way to break easily and speedily the hardest rocks, communicated by the same person, as he received it from Monsieur Du Son, the inventor published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. 1, issue 5 (3 July 1665) pp.82-85.
Fig.4 Illustration to Observables upon a monstrous head published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. 1, issue 21 (3 July 1665) pp.85-86. The original letter describing a monstrous colt and preserving samples of its body in wine was send by Robert Boyle to Henry Oldenburg on 20 June 1665 and can be found in the Early Letters of the Royal Society EL/B1/84. Recorded in the Letter Book of the Royal Society LBO/28/16 and copied in the Letter Book copy LBC/28/16.
Related fellows
Robert Moray (1608 - 1673, British) , Natural philosopher
Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691, British) , Natural philosopher
Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691, British) , Natural philosopher
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