Illustration page from Philosophical Transactions. Page with illustrations and diagrams from a 1666 issue of 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Illustration page from Philosophical Transactions. Page with illustrations and diagrams from a 1666 issue of 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London'. These illustrations precede page 215 of volume 1, and accompany issue 13, dated 4 June 1666. The first illustration relates to the article 'A new contrivance of wheel-barometer' (pages 218-219). The other three illustrations show an optical phenomenon observed and described as 'An account of four suns [...] and of two ' (pages 219-222).
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