| Reference number | CLP/4i/21 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'A new experiment on the effect of the varying weight of the atmosphere on some bodies in the water' by Robert Boyle |
| Date | 1671 |
| Description | The description where of was presented in the year 1671 to the perusal of the Right Honorable the Lord Brouncker; as the experiment itself was since by the authors favour shown to the publisher.
Though any things have by ingenious men been already observed, as to the power and operations of the atmosphere's weight upon liquors that are exposed to it in torricellian tubes (or other Vessels closed at one end, and near the top either empty or unfilled with any visible body), yet such men do not seem to have observed the variations of the atmosphere's weight in other vessels.
Subject: Physics |
| Language | English |
| Extent | 7p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1672.0065 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA3503 | Brouncker; William (c1620 - 1684); 2nd Viscount Brouncker; mathematician | c1620 - 1684 |
| NA8137 | Boyle; Robert (1627 - 1691); natural philosopher and chemist | 1627 - 1691 |