BIB_ID
101215
Accession number
MA 1064.1-4
Display Date
1601-1678.
Credit line
Purchased, 1928.
Description
4 items, unbound : ill. (ports.) ; various sizes
Notes
High reserve.
Provenance
Purchased from G. Wells in 1928.
Summary
Being a collection of autograph letters signed of Tycho Brahe, Isaac Newton, Robert Hooke, and Galilei Galileo, with engraved portraits of Brahe, Newton, Galileo and Robert Shirley. Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 1064.1-4). With 10 engraved portraits, 1 engraving of the four celestial systems and 2 engravings of monuments to Newton.
Housed in
Blue cloth slipcase (39.2 cm)
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