Pigeon house with 'l'over hole'
Date
18 December 1669
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p2
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height (page): 209mm
width (page): 149mm
width (page): 149mm
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Description
Drawing of a house, showing the 'l'over hole' (derived from the name given to a sheltered hole on top of the roof of pigeon houses), in a letter from William Jackson to Henry Oldenburg dated at Nantwich, 18 December 1669.
Jackson also communicated to the Royal Society an image and description of the salt-making process (printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 4, no. 53 (1669), pp. 1067-79) and cheese-making process (Cl.P/3i/22/006-007) in Cheshire.
Jackson also communicated to the Royal Society an image and description of the salt-making process (printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 4, no. 53 (1669), pp. 1067-79) and cheese-making process (Cl.P/3i/22/006-007) in Cheshire.
Related fellows
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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