Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16740

    Dial plate of a watch

    Date
    27 May 1700
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    f110 p361
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 303mm
    width (page): 195mm
    Subject
    Description
    Diagram of a dial plate in a watch by Thomas Bulman (in a larger letter from Mr Strageways about watches and clocks).

    In papers collected by Robert Southwell.
    Object history
    This manuscript was sold at Sotheby's in June 1893 (Phillips sale) and acquired by the Royal Society from a purchaser of that lot. Some of the material is signed by Robin Bacon, who was also Robert Boyle's scribe (see William Poole, 'Sir Robert Southwell's Dialogue on Thomas Burnet's Theory of the Earth: "C & S Discourse of Mr Burnett's Theory of the Earth" (1684): Contexts and an Edition', The Seventeenth Century, 23 (2008), 72-104).
    Related fellows
    Robert Southwell (1635 - 1702, British) , Diplomat
    Giles Strangeways (1615 - 1675, British) , Politician
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