Cider barrel
Date
22 July 1663
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p461
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 320mm
width (page): 200mm
width (page): 200mm
Subject
Description
Design of a barrel tapered downwards with holes, explained by Captain Silas Taylor in a letter to Henry Oldenburg dated 14 July, London. This was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 22 July 1663. Silas Taylor, alias Domville (1624-1678), was an active participant in the early Royal Society who never became a Fellow.
The original letter is at EL/T/2/003. There are other copies of this image at RBO/2i/278, RBO/2ii/191, MS/215/084 and RBC/2/079.
This volume is another copy of entries of the first two volumes of the Register Book. It was given to Sir Joseph Banks by G. S. Heales Esquire of Doctor's Common on 31 May 1814.
The original letter is at EL/T/2/003. There are other copies of this image at RBO/2i/278, RBO/2ii/191, MS/215/084 and RBC/2/079.
This volume is another copy of entries of the first two volumes of the Register Book. It was given to Sir Joseph Banks by G. S. Heales Esquire of Doctor's Common on 31 May 1814.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 6 July 1663, ‘Col. Long was desired to peruse all the papers hitherto given in concerning cider, and to reduce them into one compleat history, adding his own observations and experience on that subject. Capt. Taylor was also desired to communicate what he knew of it in writing’ (Birch 1:272).
22 July 1663, ‘Capt. Taylor gave in his observations on cider, which were read, and ordered to be registered’ (Birch 1:280).
This was printed as part of 'Aphorisms concerning Cider' in John Evelyn, Sylva, or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions (London: J. Martyn and J. Allestry, 1664), p. 49.
22 July 1663, ‘Capt. Taylor gave in his observations on cider, which were read, and ordered to be registered’ (Birch 1:280).
This was printed as part of 'Aphorisms concerning Cider' in John Evelyn, Sylva, or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions (London: J. Martyn and J. Allestry, 1664), p. 49.
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