Archimedes's Theorem
Date
late 17th - early 18th century
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
f80 p273
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 188mm
width (page): 117mm
width (page): 117mm
Subject
Description
Diagram showing Archimedes's theorem from Euclid's Elements (Book 1, proposition 47), among the papers collected by Robert Southwell.
Transcription
Proposition quarente & sept
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
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