Diagram, 'A figure of the wheel-barometer' by Robert Hooke
Reference number: CLP/20/32
Date: 07 October 1663
Description
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, 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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Classified papers: volume 20, Robert Hooke's papers
1662-1699 Creator: Robert Hooke Reference number: CLP/20
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