Oratio de Baroscopiis in Coni: publ: Acad: Edinburg: 1688, 1688
Scope and Contents
Graduation speech, in Gregory's hand, of one Charles Sinclair. It explains the barometer, and mentions the work of Torricelli, Huygens, and Hooke. Several diagrams append.
Dates
- Creation: 1688
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genreform: manuscript
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From the Fonds: 0.5 metre
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Duncan Fisher26 August 2002
Creator
Subject
- Hooke, Robert, (1635-1703) (Experimental physicist and professor of geometry, University of Oxford) (Person)
- Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695 (Dutch mathematician) (Person)
- Sinclair, Charles, fl1688 (science graduate from the University of Edinburgh, student of David Gregory) (Person)
- Torricelli, Evangelista, 1608-1647 (Italian mathematician) (Person)
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