Diagram of the nature of the moon's rising and setting
Date
late 17th - early 18th century
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
f26 p97
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 293mm
width (page): 182mm
width (page): 182mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Diagram of the nature of the moon's rising and setting.
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
Associated place