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Language and size: Libri Latini, &c. in Folio
Lot number: 274
Page number: 7
Author: Accolti, Pietro
Title: Prospettiva Practica ... con Fig.
Publication place: Firenze
Publication date: 1625
Price fetched: 0.3.6
Location: British Library shelfmark 536.l.21.(6.)
Sloane no. [none, black stamp only]: no fixed url, search the Sloane Printed Books catalogue.
Provenance: Sloane, Hans (1660-1753)
Provenance references: Mandelbrote, 'Sloane's Purchases' (2009), p. 119, 123; 24 December 1678 entry in Hooke, Diary, 1672-1680 (1935), pp. 388, 390.
Annotations: "Leaf with drawing of printing device bound in at end," noted (p. 123) and reproduced (p. 119) by Mandelbrote.
Other notes: Full title in the British Library catalogue: Lo Inganno de gl' occhi, prospettiva pratica.
Hooke purchased this book for 3s from Moses Pitt's auction; it is listed as "Lo Inganno de Gl'occhi, Prospettiva pratica di Piet. Accolti, Fiorenze, 1625," lot 22 on p. 1 in 'Libri Italic. Gallic. Hispan. Batav. Folio' section of Gijsbert Voet [& Moses Pitt], Catalogus variorum librorum inst[r]uctissimæ bibliothecæ præstantissimi doctissimique viri in Anglia defuncti, ut & aliorum in omnibus scientiis atque linguis insignium, ex bibliothecæ clarissimi Gisberti Voetii emptorum cum multis aliis tum antiquis tum modernis nuperrimæ ex variis partibus Europæ advectis quorum auctio habebitur . . . Novembris 25, 1678.
At the end of this book is a leaf of manuscript notes, calculations, and sketches, in Hooke's hand, including an illustration for "A way to print one-single coppy as fast as write it to send[?] &c.," and ideas such as "An engine by which a wagon coach &c. may be drawn up hill & down hill wth equall strength," "A neat true[?] easy exact plain motion by 2 plain Marbles," "Whether ye doctrine of triangles & measuring of angles may not be done by conick sections," and on the verso, "What if we suppose libratio[?] in ye earth - which will retaine[?] by a line of signes fro[?] capr: to cancre," with diagrammatic sketches for "one mold to grind all glasse."
database ID: auct_BH_295

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Language and size:	Libri Latini, &c. in Folio
Lot number:	274
Page number:	7
Author:	Accolti, Pietro
Title:	Prospettiva Practica ... con Fig.
Publication place:	Firenze
Publication date:	1625
Price fetched:	0.3.6
Location:	British Library shelfmark 536.l.21.(6.) Sloane no. [none, black stamp only]: no fixed url, search the Sloane Printed Books catalogue.
Provenance:	Sloane, Hans (1660-1753)
Provenance references:	Mandelbrote, 'Sloane's Purchases' (2009), p. 119, 123; 24 December 1678 entry in Hooke, Diary, 1672-1680 (1935), pp. 388, 390.
Annotations:	"Leaf with drawing of printing device bound in at end," noted (p. 123) and reproduced (p. 119) by Mandelbrote.
Other notes:	Full title in the British Library catalogue: Lo Inganno de gl' occhi, prospettiva pratica. Hooke purchased this book for 3s from Moses Pitt's auction; it is listed as "Lo Inganno de Gl'occhi, Prospettiva pratica di Piet. Accolti, Fiorenze, 1625," lot 22 on p. 1 in 'Libri Italic. Gallic. Hispan. Batav. Folio' section of Gijsbert Voet [& Moses Pitt], Catalogus variorum librorum inst[r]uctissimæ bibliothecæ præstantissimi doctissimique viri in Anglia defuncti, ut & aliorum in omnibus scientiis atque linguis insignium, ex bibliothecæ clarissimi Gisberti Voetii emptorum cum multis aliis tum antiquis tum modernis nuperrimæ ex variis partibus Europæ advectis quorum auctio habebitur . . . Novembris 25, 1678. At the end of this book is a leaf of manuscript notes, calculations, and sketches, in Hooke's hand, including an illustration for "A way to print one-single coppy as fast as write it to send[?] &c.," and ideas such as "An engine by which a wagon coach &c. may be drawn up hill & down hill wth equall strength," "A neat true[?] easy exact plain motion by 2 plain Marbles," "Whether ye doctrine of triangles & measuring of angles may not be done by conick sections," and on the verso, "What if we suppose libratio[?] in ye earth - which will retaine[?] by a line of signes fro[?] capr: to cancre," with diagrammatic sketches for "one mold to grind all glasse."
database ID:	auct_BH_295