Robert Boyle's barometer Finish:Single to surrender in August 1808

to surrender in August 1808

The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details and upper left 'American Ostrich

For the opposition

Dream City of Christopher Wren's Buildings

South-west view of the King's Head Academy

Robert Boyle's barometer Finish:Single to surrender in August 1808Fig. 1: Boyle's experiment 'About the greatest height to which Water can be rais'd by Attraction or Sucking Pumps'; Fig. 2: 'Wherein is proposed a way of making Barometers, that may be transported even to distant Countries'; Figs. 3 and 4: 'Shewing that an Oblique pressure of the Atmosphere may suffice to keep up the Mercury at the wonted height in the Torricellian Experiment, and that the Spring of a little included Air may do the same.' Plate 5 from