The sembrador
Date
3 March 1670
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p2
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 140mm
width (page): 180mm
width (page): 180mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Drawing of the internal workings of the '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. 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
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.
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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