Bibliotheca Hookiana - Record details
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 |