<i>Mechanics</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1816
name: label: maker
content: London
notes: label: Description
content: This image appeared as the frontispiece of vol. 14 of the <i>Encyclopaedia Londinensis</i> (1816). The “Chapman sculp.” signature in the lower left may refer to John Chapman (fl. 1787-1811), a London engraver. The text at bottom (cropped from our copy) read “London Published April 13, 1816, by G. Jones.”
label: Description
content: A “Description of the Frontispiece Illustrating Mechanics” appears on p. [1] of the book. It reads: “Archimedes, the founder of theoretical mechanics, is represented in a contemplative attitude, in the midst of his pupils and of the instruments of the mechanical powers. In the foreground a youth is tracing on the sand a diagram expressing the famous discovery of Archimedes, the proportion of the sphere to the cylinder; to which another, leaning on a book, is attentive. On the right hand are shown the action of the screw and the wedge, and higher up, of the balance. From the ceiling is suspended a system of pulleys. On the left is a globe, the hydrostatical bellows, and the pump which bears the name of Archimedes’s screw; the action of the inclined plane is also shown in the left corner; and in the back ground, on the same side, is a youth working a crane.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Richard Yeo, <i>Encyclopaedic Visions: Scientific Dictionaries and Enlightenment Culture</i> (Cambridge and New York, 20010</i>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Prints from the Physical Sciences Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.329190
label: accession number
content: 280072
label: catalog number
content: 329190
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/4 in x 7 1/4 in; 26.035 cm x 18.415 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in mat: 14 in x 11 in x 1/16 in; 35.56 cm x 27.94 cm x .15875 cm