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Add MS 4387
- Record Id:
- 040-002109869
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002109547
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000394.0x000257
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- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 4387
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TREATISES, notes, tables, etc., relating to the Art of Dialling. Artt.
1 and 2 are in the hand of Dr. John Pell. They include:- (1) 'Horologiographia. The Art of Dialling', being a MS. copy of the first few chapters of Thomas Fale's work first printed in 1593 'newly corrected and amended ... by Redivivus Falus' and printed in 1629. ff. 1-6;- (2) 'The best way and manner of calculating of Tables for all Kinde of Dialls, &c. in all Countryes whatsoever ... 1628', by the methods of Edmund Gunter. ff. 7-12;-(3) MS. copy of a work printed in Zwolle, 1634, under the title 'Descriptio insignis Instrumenti siue Horologii ... fabrefacti anno 1630 a Dauide Lingelbach'. ff. 43-48b. Paper; ff. 49. Small quarto. XVII cent.
John Pell, d 1685 DD; mathematician and diplomatist: Notes on chronometry: n.d.: Autogr.
Chronometry: Treatises and notes rel. to the art of: 17th cent.
includes:
- ff. 1-6 Redivivus Fale: 'Horologiographia' of T. Fale amended by: 1629.: Copy. Imperf.
- ff. 43-48b David Lingelbach: 'Descriptio Insignis Instrumenti sive Horologii...': 1634.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002109547
040-002109869 - Is part of:
- Add MS 4101-4478 : Manuscripts collected by Thomas Birch (b. 1705, d. 1766), D.D., and bequeathed by him to the British Museum, of which he was…
Add MS 4387 : TREATISES, notes, tables, etc., relating to the Art of Dialling. Artt. 1 and 2 are in the hand of Dr. John Pell. They include:-… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002109547[0158]/040-002109869
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 4101-4478
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Legal Status:
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- Names:
- Lingelbach, David, of Add MS 4387
Pell, John, mathematician and diplomatist, 1611-1685