Wheeler, Benjamin (1733-1783)

Lectures on Experimental Philosophy. Incomplete notes, taken down by an anonymous student. The pagination is numbered from the end of the volume, hence p. 223 (verso of the first leaf) is actually the beginning of the text: the pagination is found in the extreme outer lower corner. The date 1772 occurs on p. 170, 'at this time'. Produced in Oxford.

1772

1 volume pp. 57-224 + 1 l. 4to. 191/2 × 151/2 cm. Unbound. The last 56 pp. are wanting: some margins frayed. Written on the rectos only.

Purchased 1935.

This MS. has been assigned to B. Wheeler on internal evidence. He was M.A. at Trinity College, Oxford in 1758, and later a Fellow of Magdalen Hall. From 1766 to 1776 he was professor of poetry, Sedleian professor of natural philosophy 1767-1782, Regius professor of divinity from 1776-1782, and a canon of Christ Church.

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).