Mercator's or Wright's true chart
Date
27 June 1689
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
f81 p277
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 285mm
width (page): 184mm
width (page): 184mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Ink map of Mercator's or Wright's true chart, in a letter signed by George Fairfax, among the papers collected by Robert Southwell.
George Fairfax was an unsuccessful candidate for the Mastership of the Royal Mathematical School at Christ's Hospital in 1682.
George Fairfax was an unsuccessful candidate for the Mastership of the Royal Mathematical School at Christ's Hospital in 1682.
Transcription
For Edward Southwell, Esq. my honored friende
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