Images of two vessels
Date
late 17th - early 18th century
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
f19 p73
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 308mm
width (page): 195mm
width (page): 195mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Images of two vessels, most likely accompanying previous paper (MS/248/18/069) describing Gillmore's engine. Paper dated 11 December 1701, 'Dr Hook's Remarks on Mr Gillmore's Engine to Supply water at Knowle'.
In papers collected by Robert Southwell.
In papers collected by Robert Southwell.
Object history
This manuscript was sold at Sotheby's in June 1893 (Phillips sale) and acquired by the Royal Society from a purchaser of that lot. Some of the material is signed by Robin Bacon, who was also Robert Boyle's scribe (see William Poole, 'Sir Robert Southwell's Dialogue on Thomas Burnet's Theory of the Earth: "C & S Discourse of Mr Burnett's Theory of the Earth" (1684): Contexts and an Edition', The Seventeenth Century, 23 (2008), 72-104).
Related fellows
Robert Southwell (1635 - 1702, British) , Diplomat
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
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