M0012952: Illustration of Hales' machine to demonstrate the movement of the planets

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Machine constructed by Stephen Hales.

Photograph of a drawing by Stukeley depicting a machine constructed by Stephen Hales to demonstrate the movement of the planets including an internal view and mechanisms, reproduced from Clark-Kennedy, A. E.: Stephen Hales, D.D., F.R.S. : an eighteenth century biography, Cambridge [England] : University Press, 1929.

April 1953

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication from which the image depicted in the glass plate negative has been reproduced.

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.