RefNo | CLP/20/21/2 |
Level | Item |
Title | Paper, Water-raising engine by Robert Hooke |
Date | 22 July 1663 |
Description | Diagram with accompanying text entitled 'A brief Description made by Mr Hook, of ye water-raising Engine presented by his Highness, Prince Rupert, to ye Society, after ye way of Cavallerius his Hydrocontisterium novum'.
This was presented to the Royal Society on 22 July 1663 and ordered to be registered.
Subject: Engineering, Hydrostatics |
Extent | 1p |
Format | Diagram |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
Notes | The 'hydrocontisterium novum' was a pump invented by the Italian mathematician Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598-1647) and described in his Exercitationes geometricae sex (Bologna, 1647). |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedRecord | CLP/20/21 |
CLP/20/21/1 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8242 | Hooke; Robert (1635 - 1703); natural philosopher | 1635 - 1703 |