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English description:

Puppet holding two lead weights in bent steel wire, balancing on a pillar

Danish Instrument Inventory text:

Gravity toy. Puppet holding 2 lead weights in bent steel wire balancing on a pillar. Painted wood. Overall H330 app. There are 3 sets, 1 in good condition and 2 defective.Ref: Det phys Cab vol 1 p 87, pl15 fig8&9Not signed1800 app

• Category: Statics
• Hauch number: B21
• Inventory number: 770
• Danish Instrument Inventory number: 304

• Hauch references:
• Begynd.grund: §117
• Cabinet 1: BBd.1 p 87; pl.15 fig8

• Literature:
• Nollet, J. A.: 3,09102
• Cataloque of Mechanical Instruments, Museo di Storia della Scienza, Firenze: 2,006

• Desaguliers(1744) pl.V fig.4