Map of a coal mine
Date
20 September 1672
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 220mm
width (page): 160mm
width (page): 160mm
Subject
Description
Map of a coal mine showing where thermometers (C and K) were placed by Richard Towneley in part of his letter to Henry Oldenburg dated 20 September 1672. It was presented to the meeting of the Royal Society on 6 November 1672, when the figure was ordered to be enlarged by the amanuensis. The paper appears to have been read on 27 November 1672, though there is no record of it in the Journal Book.
Oldenburg recorded on this paper that the first part of the letter was probably mislaid when this part was handed over to the amanuensis to enlarge.
Copies of this image can be found in LBO/5/372 and LBC/5/409.
Oldenburg recorded on this paper that the first part of the letter was probably mislaid when this part was handed over to the amanuensis to enlarge.
Copies of this image can be found in LBO/5/372 and LBC/5/409.
Transcription
(In Oldenburg's hand:) Part of Mr Townleys letter written, I think, Sept. 20. 1672; the beginning being separated given that when this figure was given to the amanuensis to draw large, is mislaid
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 6 November 1672, ‘Mr. Townley’s figure, representing a thermometrical experiment of his, made at a considerable depth under ground, was ordered to be drawn large by the amanuensis, against the next meeting’ (Birch 3:60).
Related fellows
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Associated place