BIB_ID
125688
Accession number
MA 1064.4
Creator
Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727.
Display Date
1678 May 18.
Credit line
Purchased, 1928.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 19.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal "For his ever honoured friend / Mr. Robert Hook at / his Lodgins in / Gresham College / in London." .
High reserve.
Housed with letters of Galileo and Tycho Brahe.
Mr. Lucas is likely Anthony Lucas, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Liège.
On the verso is Dr. Hooke's reply to Dr. Newton, dated May 25, 1678; inquiring whether there are in Lincolnshire plains "fit for measuring any considerable length in a straight line."
High reserve.
Housed with letters of Galileo and Tycho Brahe.
Mr. Lucas is likely Anthony Lucas, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Liège.
On the verso is Dr. Hooke's reply to Dr. Newton, dated May 25, 1678; inquiring whether there are in Lincolnshire plains "fit for measuring any considerable length in a straight line."
Provenance
Purchased from G. Wells in 1928.
Summary
Enclosing a letter and asking him to forward it to Moses Pitt "about ye Atlas he is designing to print & not knowing how to convey a letter to him immediately;" enclosing an additional letter to be forwarded to Mr. Lucas.
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