Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15069

    Plan of a church

    Date
    1684
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    LBC
    Manuscript page number
    vol9 p313
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 304mm
    width (page): 180mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Figures from Joshua Walker, a member of Brasenose College, Oxford and 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.

    This is a copy of LBO/9/238-243.
    Object history
    At the meeting of the Royal Society on 2 July 1684, ‘Another discourse was communicated form 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 4:310).
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