Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16193

    Chaldean numerology device

    Date
    Late 17th century
    Creator
    Robert Bacon (British) , Amanuensis
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p99v
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (Page): 152mm
    width (Page): 99mm
    Subject
    Description
    Number square with the outer sides, four series of seven numbers, within two square lines. Each side of the outer line is the base of a number pyramid. From the papers of Robert Boyle.
    Transcription
    The figure appears at the end of a paragraph commencing: ‘Latus dextrum aliam prorsus rationem habet in pyramide sua formanda, qui incipit pyramis ab eodem…’
    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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