• De Impenetrabilitate, De Porositate
  On Impenetrability, On Porosity
  • Press to illustrate the low compressibility of liquids
    
  • Model of a diving bell
    
  • Set for the study of porosity
  
  

• De Gravitate
  On Gravity
  • Poleni machine
    
  • Atwood machine *
  
  
• De Centro Gravitatis
  On the Centre of Gravity
  • Double cone and sloping wooden rods *
    
  • Instrument for the study of equilibrium
    
  • Acrobat illustrating the condition of equilibrium
  
  
• De Machinis Simplicibus et Compositis
  On Simple and Compound Machines
  • Fulcrum
    
  • Linear lever
    
  • Interpotent lever to illustrate the system of oblique forces
    
  • Angular lever
    
  • Machine composed of three interfixed levers
    
  • Balance with silver pans
    
  • Arithmetic balance with its case
    
  • Balance and suspension tripod
    
  • Fraudulent balance
    
  • Steelyard
    
  • Steelyard
    
  • Compound steelyard
    
  • Santorian balance
    
  • Precision balance
    
  • Movable support for a fixed pulley
    
  • Universal stand
    
  • Tackle with five movable pulleys
    
  • Unequal pulleys
    
  • Block with six pulleys
    
  • Block with five pulleys
    
  • Tripod and block with four pulleys
    
  • Cogwheel, worm screw and block with eight pulleys
    
  • Lever for lifting wheights
    
  • Capstain
    
  • Machine with ivory drum
    
  • Machine with cogwheels and worm screw
    
  • Jack
    
  • Cogwheel lever*
    
  • Pile driver *
    
  • Crane
    
  • Model crane
    
  • Model crane
    
  • Model crane
    
  • Model of the arches of a bridge *
    
  • Model of a cart, called "La Gabrielle", for transporting mansory
    
  • Cart for the study of movement over obstacles
    
  • Inclined plane
    
  • Model of Boulard cart
    
  • Model cart designed by Constantino Botelho de Lacerda
    
  • Odometer
    
  • Automaton representing a centaur
  
  
• De Motu Simplici et Composito
  On Simple and Compound Movement
  • Pendulum clock *
    
  • Apparatus to illustrate the composition of movements*
    
  • Apparatus to illustrate the trajectory of a projectile *
    
  • Machine to study the motion along a cycloid*
    
  • Machine to compare the motion of a body following a straight line and a cycloid
    
  • Apparatus to compare the motion of bodies in different trajectories *
    
  • Apparatus for the study of forces in equilibrium
    
  • System of cogwheels for the study of equilibrium
  
  
• De Motorum Corporum Viribus
  On Forces that Animate Bodies in Movement
  • Marin Mersenne balance
  
  
• De Viribus Centralibus
  On Central Forces
  • Apparatus for the study of central forces
    
  • Apparatus intended to illustrate the deformation of the Earth as consequence of its rotating motion *
    
  • Apparatus intended to show the effects of centrifugal forces
  
  
• De Attractione
  On Attraction
  • Calottes to demonstrate adhesion
    
  • Apparatus to illustrate the forces of adhesion between a liquid and a glass
  
  
• De Cohaerentia et Firmitate Solidorum
  On Cohesion and Rigidity of Solids
  • Elastic spring
    
  • Steelyard with sliding weight
  
  
• PNEUMATICS AND HYDRAULICS: FROM THE VACUUM TO THE STEAM ENGINE
  • De Hydrostatica, et Hydraulica
    On Hydrostactics and Hydraulics
    • Apparatus of communicating vessels
      
    • Hydrostatic balance
      
    • Cylinders to demonstrate Archimedes' principle
      
    • Pistol used to show the change in direction of a bullet fired over a water surface
      
    • Copper vase for heating water
      
    • Archimedes' screws
      
    • Tree higrometer or Saussure higrometer
    
    
  • De Aere
    On Air
    • Magdebourg hemispheres
      
    • Compression foutain and pump
      
    • Bronze bell
      
    • Baroscope
      
    • Nollet model fire pump
      
    • Quadrant barometer
      
    • Travel barometer by J.H. Magellan
    
    
  • De Igne
    On Fire
    • Aeolipile
      
    • Papin cauldron
      
    • Revolving machine of Botelho de Lacerda
      
    • Richard Trevithick steam engine
      
    • 's Gravesande ring
      
    • Pyrometer
      
    • Nollet's pyrometer
      
    • Flint trigger destined to show that air is indispensable to combustion
    
    
• OPTICS
  • De Luce, De Dioptrica, De Catoptrica
    On Light, On Dioptrics, On Captotrics
    • Apparatus used to show that the intensity of light varies as the inverse of the square of the distance
      
    • Adjustable slit mounted on a stand to permit height adjustment
      
    • Optical bench with five lens cases
      
    • Horizontal optical prism mounted on a stand to permit height adjustment
      
    • Vertical optical prism
      
    • Stand for seven prisms
      
    • Prism (2)
      
    • Convex lens mounted on a support
      
    • Flat-convex lenses with multi-faceted surface
      
    • Compound microscope
      
    • Compound microscope and case
      
    • Flat metallic mirror with adjustable direction
      
    • Instrument for demonstrating the laws of reflection of light
      
    • Compound mirror
      
    • Circular mirror with nineteen spherical convex hubs (2)
      
    • Mirror support
      
    • Convexo-cylindrical metallic mirror and anamorphose
      
    • Pyramidal metallic mirror with anamorphosis and hand-coloured print
      
    • Conic metallic mirror with anamorphosis and hand-coloured print
      
    • Set of painted glass slides
      
    • Optical chamber with colour engravings
      
    • Paper paintings to be observed obliquely
    
    
• FROM THE MYSTERIES OF THE MAGNESIA STONE TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SCIENTIFIC DOMAIN
  • De Magnete
    On Magnetism
    • Chinese magnet set in a crown
      
    • Spherical magnet mounted on a stand
      
    • Magnetic declination needle
      
    • Declination compass
      
    • Declination and inclination compasses

    
    
• ELECTROSTATICS, FROM OTTO VON GUERICK TO CHARLES DE COULOMB
  • De Electricitate
    On Electricity
    • Nairne electrical machine
      
    • Glass disc electrical machine
      
    • Nairne electrical machine
      
    • Nairne electrical machine
      
    • Le Roy double electrical machine
      
    • Electrometer
      
    • Volta condenser electrometer
      
    • Singer condenser electroscope
      
    • Leyden jar
      
    • Leyden jar with two bells
      
    • Electric battery comprising twelve jars
      
    • Electric battery comprising seven jars
      
    • Universal discharger
      
    • Electric turnstile
      
    • Coulomb torsion balance
      
    • Hollow Coulomb sphere with two caps
      
    • Insulated conductor with elder pendulums
      
    • Fulminant tube
      
    • Electric egg
      
    • Glass helix tube with spheres to observe electrical discharges in gaseous atmosphere
    
    
• ELECTROMAGNETISM, FROM ALESSANDRO VOLTA TO RUDOLF HERTZ
  • Electromagnetism
    • Voltaic cell
      
    • Cup battery
      
    • Dry battery (Bohnenberger electroscope)
      
    • Voltameter
      
    • Voltameter
      
    • Oersted magnetic needle *
      
    • Ampère table
      
    • Thomson Galvanometer
      
    • Solenoid
      
    • Barlow apparatus
      
    • Model of the Breguet electrical telegraph
      
    • Apparatus to demonstrate the laws of electromagnetic induction
      
    • Delezenne disc*
      
    • Foucault photoelectric regulator, with lamp
    • Radiometer
      
    
    
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