Inscriptions and lodestone specimen
Date
1712
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Unknown, Engraver
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Four figures from issue 335 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Figures 1-2. Copies of the inscriptions on various parts of Caerphilly Castle, South Wales, including: mason’s mark from the stone arches (Fig 1) and the mason’s mark on a sculpture in the round tower (fig 2).
Figure 3. Encrinus fossils, an extinct genus of crinoids, found in Wales.
Illustrations to ‘III. A letter from the late Mr. Edward Lhwyd, keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, to Dr. Tancred Robinson, F. R. S. Giving a farther account of what he met with remarkable in natural history and antiquities, in his travels thro’ Wales’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 27, issue 335 (September 1712).
Figure 4. Lodestone specimen used by Francis Hauksbee in his investigations into its magnetic force.
Illustrations to ‘V. An account of experiments concerning the proportion of the power of the load-stone at different distances’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 27, issue 335 (September 1712).
Edward Lhuyd (1660-1709), British naturalist and philologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1708, and; Francis Hauksbee (bap. 1660, d. 1713), British natural philosopher and scientific instrument maker, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1705. Four figures from issue 335 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Figures 1-2. Copies of the inscriptions on various parts of Caerphilly Castle, South Wales, including: mason’s mark from the stone arches (Fig 1) and the mason’s mark on a sculpture in the round tower (fig 2).
Figure 3. Encrinus fossils, an extinct genus of crinoids, found in Wales.
Illustrations to ‘III. A letter from the late Mr. Edward Lhwyd, keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, to Dr. Tancred Robinson, F. R. S. Giving a farther account of what he met with remarkable in natural history and antiquities, in his travels thro’ Wales’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 27, issue 335 (September 1712).
Figure 4. Lodestone specimen used by Francis Hauksbee in his investigations into its magnetic force.
Illustrations to ‘V. An account of experiments concerning the proportion of the power of the load-stone at different distances’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 27, issue 335 (September 1712).
Edward Lhuyd (1660-1709), British naturalist and philologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1708, and; Francis Hauksbee (bap. 1660, d. 1713), British natural philosopher and scientific instrument maker, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1705. Four figures from issue 335 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Related fellows
Edward Lhuyd (1660 - 1709, British) , Naturalist and Antiquary, Naturalist
Francis Hauksbee (1688 - 1763, British) , Natural philosopher
Francis Hauksbee (1688 - 1763, British) , Natural philosopher
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