Cornelis Drebbel’s Perpetuum Mobile in the Linder Gallery

Jeff Cordover Art-Science, Instruments and machines, Mathematics 6 Comments

The Perpetuum Mobile, a machine which can just be made out in the shadowy right background of the Linder Gallery (no. 43 in the zoomable image), is not the only invention of Cornelis Drebbel (1572-1633), nor perhaps even the most significant, but it is certainly the one for which he was best known by his contemporaries, and the one of …