Wickham, John (1730-1783)

Notes of a course of lectures [on Chemistry], begun May 21, 1750. Produced in Oxford.

1750

1 volume 2 ll. + 243 ff. + 30 bl. ll. 4to. 191/2 × 13 cm. Original rough stamped calf binding. Written on the rectos only.

Purchased 1923.

On the fly-leaf 'J. Wickham. C.C.C. Oxon'. He was Rector of Horsington, and is recorded in Gunther's 'Early Science at Oxford', Vol. IX, p. 370, as having attended James Bradley's lectures on experimental philosophy at the Ashmolean in 1747.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).