Scientific papers

Item author: Christopher and Richard Towneley
Item date: 17th century
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 13,800
Item date acquired: 1985
Item institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

Working notebooks and written-up mathematical calculations in disciplines ranging from geometry to astronomy, from physics to trigonometry and from land-measuring to malting. This last in the form of an essay written by the young John Flamsteed, the future Astronomer Royal

Item Provenance
Sothebys July 1985, Lot 546