RefNo | RBO/6/19 |
AltRefNo | RBO.6.134 |
Level | Item |
Title | 'An Account of Experiments and discourses made before the Royal Society' by Robert Hooke |
Date | 1684 |
Description | 16 January 1683 - details about a weighing scales by which comparative weight of any two bodies can be found (figures in text) 23 January 1684 - 'A pair of Japan Scales and Weights made and adjusted in that Country' - details of a Japon Stillyard - details of Hooke's own stilyard 6 February 1684 - designed apparatus mentioned in last meeting to test the magnetical properties of steel with bodies not usually magnetic - Experiments with ice - trying to discover the hardness and strength of ice 13 February 1684 - To examine the comparative weight of ice and water 20 February 1684 - Experiments to show the 'blebbs' in ice are filled with air which has the same properties with common air 27 February 1684 - experiment to show the limits of heat and cold of water 5, 12 and 19 March - experiments to show the quenching of red hot rods of steel - magnetical experiments tried with several rods of steel without touching them |
Language | English |
Extent | 27 sides |
Format | Manuscript |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8242 | Hooke; Robert (1635 - 1703); natural philosopher | 1635 - 1703 |