RefNo | RBO/3/65 |
AltRefNo | RBO.3.227 |
Level | Item |
Title | 'A Description Of an Instrument of dividing a Foot into many thousand parts and thereby measuring the Diameters of planets with great exactnesse etc' by Robert Hooke |
Date | 1667 |
Description | 'The instrument itself being contrived by Mr Richard Towneley to the Royal Society and this following Description of it being made by Mr Hook was read before the Society'
Annotated engraving attached and figures in text Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 2, no 29, p 541 |
Language | English |
Extent | 7 sides |
Format | Manuscript |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1666.0044 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8242 | Hooke; Robert (1635 - 1703); natural philosopher | 1635 - 1703 |