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Diagram, 'A figure of the wheel-barometer' by Robert Hooke

Reference number: CLP/20/32

Date: 07 October 1663

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Diagram illustrating a wheel barometer, showing a tube and dial for taking barometric readings. The equipment is similar to that illustrated in Hooke's Micrographia, but here it is depicted from an angle so that the mechanism at the rear of the dial is visible.

Subject: Meteorology

Reference number
CLP/20/32
Earliest possible date
07 October 1663
Physical description
Ink and ink wash on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Diagram

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Robert Hooke

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Robert Hooke, Diagram, 'A figure of the wheel-barometer' by Robert Hooke, 07 October 1663, CLP/20/32, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_20_32/diagram-a-figure-of-the-wheel-barometer-by-robert-hooke, accessed on 22 January 2025

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