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Science: a complex machine for determining the specific gravity of various substances, an observer in early eighteenth-century dress looks on. Engraving.
Wellcome Collection

Science: a complex machine for determining the specific gravity of various substances, an observer in early eighteenth-century dress looks on. Engraving.

Unknown artist

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: The hydrostatic balance to find the specific gravities of fluid and solid bodies.

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