Euclidean diagrams
Date
late 17th - early 18th century
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
f79 p256
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 185mm
width (page): 121mm
width (page): 121mm
Subject
Description
Diagram from Euclid's Elements (Book 1, proposition 20), among the 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