Meteorological Instruments
Subject
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Hygroscopium per [illegible], 1697
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [110]
Scope and Contents
Diagram and English description of a twisted-cord hygrometer. Below is Lucan's epigram about Pompey's failure to preserve the Republic against Caesar's megalomania. The date is 15 September 1697. Attached by glue is a slip of paper showing a short line of algebra.
Dates:
1697
Oratio de Baroscopiis in Coni: publ: Acad: Edinburg: 1688, 1688
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [188]
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:
1688
Print advertisement for a barometer, c1706
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [99]
Scope and Contents
A printed advertisement, locus unknown, for an improved "Quicksilver Barometer".
Dates:
c1706