Micrometer

Date

1667

Creator

Unknown, Engraver

Creator - Organisation

The Royal Society, Publisher

Object type

print
engraving

Article identifier

10.1098/rstl.1666.0044
10.1098/rstl.1666.0017

Material

paper
ink

Technique

engraving

Dimensions

width (paper): 200mm
height (paper): 320mm

Subject

Astronomy

Content object

scientific environment & equipment
> instrument

Description

Five figures showing the different parts of a micrometer designed by Richard Towneley.

Plate number 29 to A description of an instrument for dividing a foot into many thousand parts, and thereby measuring the diameters of planets to great exactness, &c. as it was promised published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 2, issue 29 (11 Nov 1667) pp.541-544.

The original drawings can be found in the Classified Papers of the Royal Society CLP/2/13 and recorded in Register Book of the Royal Society RBO/3/65.

Richard Towneley (1629-1707) British mathematician, natural philosopher and astronomer.

Related fellows

Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher

Associated place

<The World>
> Europe
> United Kingdom

Micrometer

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