Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16198

    Hemisphere

    Date
    Late 17th century
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p213r
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (Page): 195mm
    width (Page): 150mm
    Description
    Simple hemisphere, appearing at the edge of a page containing an unconnected dedicatory inscription by Joseph Crabb.
    Transcription
    The associated inscription commences ‘Amico meo…’ and is signed by Joseph Crabb, dated 2 [or 4?] September 1686.
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
    Object history
    Hunter states that the overall manuscript is ‘Evidently the remains of a commonplace book, probably of John Warr senior’. (Michael Hunter, The Boyle Papers: Understanding the Manuscripts of Robert Boyle (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), p. 497.)
    Related fellows
    Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691, British) , Natural philosopher
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