Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16192

    Chaldean numerology device

    Date
    Late 17th century
    Creator
    Robert Bacon (British) , Amanuensis
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p97r
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (Page): 150mm
    width (Page): 99mm
    Subject
    Description
    Two sets of numbers grouped into rough diamond patterns, with a ‘stepped’ set of lines running through each. From the papers of Robert Boyle.
    Transcription
    Headed: ‘Figura scalaris’.

    Text below reads: ‘Confecta figura scalar cum suis pyramidibus figuram triangularem componamus, quaeiisdem plane numeris clavis quaesiti confictur, eo scilicet in lineam latam disponendo…’
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
    Object history
    Within a manuscript headed: ‘Philosophia Chaldaica’.
    Related fellows
    Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691, British) , Natural philosopher
    Associated place
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