Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15704

    Printer's device

    Date
    1686
    Creator
    Henri Justel (1620 - 1693, French) , Royal Librarian, Librarian
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p5
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 174mm
    width (page): 97mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Printer's device on the title-page of Antoine Pago, Critica Historico-Chronologica in Annales Ecclesiasticos (Leiden: widow of E. Martin and J. Boudot, 1686).
    Object history
    On 17 March 1688, 'Two notes from Mr Justell were read giving a further account of the Engine that consumes smoak & that Incense burnt therein gives no smell at all, in one of these notes he sent a title of a book, called Critica Historico-Cronologica in Annales Ecclesiasitcos Em.mi Card. Baronii. Authore Antonio Pagi. this author pretends to have found out a period which he names Perioducs Graeco-Romana; more usefull and better than the Julian period' (JBO/8/040-041).
    Related fellows
    Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742, British) , Astronomer
    Henri Justel (1620 - 1693, French) , Royal Librarian, Librarian
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