Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15556

    Gardening hand tools

    Date
    9 July 1664
    Creator
    John Beale (1608 - 1687, British) , Science writer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p4
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 326mm
    width (page): 212mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Small drawings within the text of gardening tools described by John Beale. These show a 'fox bill' with a six-foot handle, a pruning hook described by Columella, and a weeding tool with a forked end.

    These drawings are copied in LBO/27/429 and LBC/27/419-420.
    Related fellows
    John Beale (1608 - 1687, British) , Clergyman
    Associated place
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