Cosmological diagram
Date
17th century
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p89r
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 272mm
width (page): 194mm
width (page): 194mm
Subject
Content object
Description
A diagram showing the Copernican system. This figure accompanied notes in Italian on Johannes Sacrobosco's La sfera, which was originally compiled in the thirteenth century but remained an introductory textbook on astronomy up to the seventeenth century.
This manuscript on fortification and geometry is a teaching manual. It is a compilation of several texts: on fortification, practical geometry, on the spheres, on measuring, more geometry, and arithmetic. The first two texts (fols 1-82) are in a single fair hand. A different hand continues from fol. 83 onwards. Some of the figures and calculations in the Practical Geometry are added in this second hand, which seems to be that of a student.
The Fellows of the Royal Society were very interested in fortification as a form of military defence. The general skills of surveying buildings and constructions were well known by Fellows such as Jonas Moore, Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke, who were involved in the rebuilding of London after the great fire in 1666.
It is unknown when this manuscript entered the collections of the Royal Society.
This manuscript on fortification and geometry is a teaching manual. It is a compilation of several texts: on fortification, practical geometry, on the spheres, on measuring, more geometry, and arithmetic. The first two texts (fols 1-82) are in a single fair hand. A different hand continues from fol. 83 onwards. Some of the figures and calculations in the Practical Geometry are added in this second hand, which seems to be that of a student.
The Fellows of the Royal Society were very interested in fortification as a form of military defence. The general skills of surveying buildings and constructions were well known by Fellows such as Jonas Moore, Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke, who were involved in the rebuilding of London after the great fire in 1666.
It is unknown when this manuscript entered the collections of the Royal Society.
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