Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London

Royal Society (Great Britain), Maty, Paul Henry, 1745-1787. General index to the Philosophical transactions, Stuart, Alexander, 1673-1742. Three lectures on muscular motion, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner. DSI · 1666 · London : Royal Society of London · 10 pictures

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, a 1666 scientific journal published in London by the Royal Society for natural philosophers and learned readers. Its pictures are copperplate-style engravings of an apparatus: three upright vertical plates on a flat base, with a pendulum-like weight and cord at the front-left, drawn in fine parallel hatching with lettered reference points. A designer might take from them the precise, labelled technical diagram style and its strong hatched shading for line-based graphics.

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