Manuscripts

A course of hydrostatical and pneumatical experiments... : notebook

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Description: The notebook includes lecture notes, summaries of experiments performed and their results as well as diagrams and drawings of various apparatus. More specifically, Hetherington references the air pump, and several scientists including Robert Boyle, Otto von Guericke, Francis Hauksbee, and Evangelista Torricelli.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1711.
Call number: mssHM 72668
Creator: Hetherington, J(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.
Dimensions: 23 cm :
Associated organization: Burndy Library,
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