Robert Boyle's barometer Size:M: 75 x 50cm Interior view of Lambeth Palace

Interior view of Lambeth Palace chapel

Gateway to the Oxford Arms Inn

view of the hall and staircase

St George's Circus

Once beaten by the scutch on a scutching-frame

Robert Boyle's barometer Size:M: 75 x 50cm Interior view of Lambeth PalaceFig. 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