Two Glass Containers for Scientific Experiments with Liquids (Illustrations for "Saggi di naturali esperienze")
Medium
Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, black chalk framing lines
Dimensions
sheet: 11 1/16 x 7 3/8 in. (28.1 x 18.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952
Accession Number
52.570.218
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the dawn of modern science with this intriguing 17th-century drawing *Two Glass Containers for Scientific with Liquids*, created anonymously in 1666 as an illustration for *Saggi di naturali esperienze ("Essays on Natural Experiments a seminal Italian text exploring natural philosophy through hands-on trials. Amid the Scientific Revolution, when figures like Galileo and Boyle were pioneering empirical methods, these precise depictions of laboratory glassware—likely used for observing liquid behaviors—captured the era's fascination with controlled experimentation. Housed in the Metrop...