Astroites (star stones)
Date
19 January 1674
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p14a
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 307mm
width (page): 195mm
width (page): 195mm
Subject
Content object
Description
17 figures on paper slips all stuck to one page of paper.
Descriptions of the figures in the accompanying letter.
Figure of astroites, or star stones, brought to Martin Lister from Bugthorpe and Leppington, as described in his letter to Henry Oldenburg dated 19 January 1674, York.
The letter was read on 22 January 1674 and printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 10, no. 112 (1675), pp. 274-79, with figures in tab. 2.
There is a copy of this figure at LBC/7/022a.
Descriptions of the figures in the accompanying letter.
Figure of astroites, or star stones, brought to Martin Lister from Bugthorpe and Leppington, as described in his letter to Henry Oldenburg dated 19 January 1674, York.
The letter was read on 22 January 1674 and printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 10, no. 112 (1675), pp. 274-79, with figures in tab. 2.
There is a copy of this figure at LBC/7/022a.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 22 January 1674, ‘Mr. Oldenburg read a letter to him from Mr. Lister, dated 7th January, 1673/4, concerning an old fungus subterraneus, of a bituminous nature, found in a rocky limestone ground in Derbyshire; as also an uncommon mineral liquor, white, resembling cream, found at the bottom of a coalpit, and in iron-mines, in great quantity’ (Birch 3:122).
Printed in M. Lister, 'Observations of the astroites or star stones', Phil. Trans. vol. 10, no. 112 (March 1675), pp. 274-79, tab. 2
Printed in M. Lister, 'Observations of the astroites or star stones', Phil. Trans. vol. 10, no. 112 (March 1675), pp. 274-79, tab. 2
Related fellows
Martin Lister (1639 - 1712, British) , Physician
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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