Astronomy: 18th cent.

Date:
c. 1725
Reference:
MS.1003
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Description

Notes on astronomy and chronology. Latin essay on Sallust's 'Bellum Catilinarium'. Short note on the Creed. Among the blank leaves is an unfinished pen-drawing of a man on horseback outside a city gate. The date 1723 is used in one of the problems in the chronology section.

Publication/Creation

c. 1725

Physical description

1 volume 24 ll. + 2 bl. ll. + 1 l. + 9 bl. ll. + 1 l. + 73 bl. ll. 4to. 191/2 x 151/2 cm. Original bellum binding. Neatly written, and illustrated by a rough pen-drawing of a rainbow.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1905.

Finding aids

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).

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  • 11336