Plan of a church
Date
1684
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p243
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 312mm
width (page): 198mm
width (page): 198mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Figure 9 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.
The figures in this paper are copied at LBC/9/308-16.
The figures in this paper are copied at LBC/9/308-16.
Transcription
The figure of an Amphitheatre or Church having 20 equall sides and equall Angles. The Roof is up held by 6 such Arches of Timber as that Fig 2d.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
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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