Plan of fortification
Date
17th century
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
f86 p291
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 192mm
width (page): 296mm
width (page): 296mm
Subject
Content object
Description
This plan of a fortification was sent from Edward Southwell to Robert Southwell. The accompanying text discusses the general rule to fortify the exterior angles of any polygon. It is included amongst the papers collected by Robert Southwell.
Transcription
Part of an Hexagonall Fort wherein the angle at the Center is 60d. & the angle at the figure 120d.
On back: From Edward Southwell
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
On back: From Edward Southwell
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
Edward Southwell (1671 - 1730, British) , Politician
Edward Southwell (1671 - 1730, British) , Politician
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