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
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.
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
Giles Strangeways (1615 - 1675, British) , Politician
Associated place