The sembrador
Date
3 March 1670
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (plate): 118mm
width (plate): 170mm
width (plate): 170mm
Subject
Content object
Description
An etching of a 'sembrador' accompanying John Evelyn's letter to William Brouncker dated 23 February 1670, which was read to the Royal Society on 3 March 1670. Evelyn wrote that he had come across a Spanish tract about this new sowing plough two years earlier, though it had been introduced into Spain from Germany. This print presumably came from that tract. At the bottom, ink annotations indicate the scale in inches. Its internal structure was illustrated on the next sheet. Evelyn asked the Spanish ambassador to send an actual example; it was broken in transit, but was given to the Repository. Evelyn's description was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 5, no. 60.
Object history
3 March 1670, ‘Mr. Evelyn having moved in his letter, that the description of the Spanish engine might be printed in the Philosophical Transactions, it was ordered, that Mr. Hooke should be desired to consider this Spanish engine and put it into order, and likewise make a scheme and description of the English, to be published together’ (Birch 2:425).
Tab. 1 from John Evelyn, 'The Spanish Sembrador', Phil. Trans., vol. 5, no. 60 (June 1670), pp. 1055-65.
The 'Sembradore' is listed in the catalogue of the Royal Society's Repository, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis (London: W. Rawlins, 1681), p. 371.
Tab. 1 from John Evelyn, 'The Spanish Sembrador', Phil. Trans., vol. 5, no. 60 (June 1670), pp. 1055-65.
The 'Sembradore' is listed in the catalogue of the Royal Society's Repository, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis (London: W. Rawlins, 1681), p. 371.
Related fellows
John Evelyn (1620 - 1706, British) , Diarist
William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker of Lyons (1620 - 1684, British) , Mathematician
William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker of Lyons (1620 - 1684, British) , Mathematician
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