| RefNo | PT/73/13/7 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Diagrams, details of apparatus for determining composition of a substance by unknown artist |
| Date | [1827] |
| Description | Plate 15, figures 2-5 showing various details of the apparatus used by Prout to determine the composition of various substances by measuring the carbonic gas yielded by each substance. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Ink inscription verso reads 'Dr Prout's Paper Commund [communicated] May 4 1827 JFW [John Frederick William] Herschel'. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked 'J Whatman 1825'. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.
Subject: Chemistry
Published in volume 117 of Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the ultimate composition of simple alimentary substances; with some preliminary remarks on the analysis of organized bodies in general' by William Prout.
Read to the Royal Society on 14 June 1827. |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Diagram |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Dimensions | 285x217mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1827.0027 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0329 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA1335 | Prout; William (1785 - 1850) | 1785 - 1850 |