Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14876

    Plan of a church

    Date
    1684
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p241
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 312mm
    width (page): 199mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Figures 4-7 from a design of a 70-foot-wide church, without any pillar, by Joshua Walker of Brasenose College, Oxford and a member of the Oxford Philosophical Society. The paper was too long to be read at the meeting on 2 July 1684, but was ordered to be transcribed.

    These figures are copied in LBC/9/308-16.
    Object history
    At the meeting of the Royal Society on 2 July 1684, ‘Another discourse was communicated from Oxford by Mr. Joshua Walker concerning the figure of a church, which may be built seventy feet wide, without any pillar in it. This also being long was not read, but ordered to be transcribed’ (Birch 4:320).
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