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John Beale
Henry Oldenburg
Beale suggests material that could be included in his 'Proplasma' ('pattern') eg. entertainment with new musical instruments, transmutation of flowers to improve their smell, gardens for pleasure, wonderful plants. Beale discusses a definition of a garden with particular emphasis on describing trees Mentions Mr Hartlib
30 September 1659 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/B1/14
1668
Autograph letter concerning the scheme of magnetical variations sent by Captain Samuel Sturmy. The observations were taken on 13 June 1666 in the presence of Mr Staynred at Rownham Meadows near Bristol. Table attached. Sturmy (1633-1669) worked in the West Indies [Caribbean] trade from Bristol and then settled there as a mathematical practitioner and teacher Read to the Royal Society on 28 May 1668
28 May 1668 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/B1/53
1670
Concerning cheese-making; concerning minerals, metals and springs and a published paper which refuted Beale's findings
15 March 1670 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/B1/54
1672
Autograph letter containing remarks about Mr Lister's views concerning the development of stones in the human body and hair-worms in horses; concerning spiders and distemper; observations of animals in Geneva; observations of the cure from the bite of tarantula
16 July 1672 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/B1/56
Observations of the weather in the Bristol area and suggests that almanac-makers should include tables of the weather Read to the Royal Society on 29 January 1672
13 January 1672 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/B1/58
1673
Concerns sending Mr Strode of Maperton's (Somerset) new way of measuring a triangle whose sides are given in numbers without finding a perpendicular The latter part of Strode's work is attached Oldenburg endorsed this letter: 'The inclosed of Mr Strodes I sent back to him upon the desire of Dr Beale, after it was enter'd in our 6th Letter book, pag. 215'
28 July 1673 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/B1/59
Concerning the development of cider-making in Cambridgeshire providing information about how cider-making has progressed in Herefordshire Initialled by Beale Attached to this letter is a table of the contents for Beale's paper on cider (see EL/B1/65)
22 September 1673 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/B1/64
1675
Concerning a paper that Beale wanted published in 'Philosophical Transactions' and the corrections that he wanted to make to it Read to the Royal Society on 15 April 1675
03 April 1675 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/B1/67
Concerning an article which Beale says is not ready to be published Note states: 'Not to be entered [in the Letter Book]'
17 April 1675 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/B1/69
1676
Beale sends a piece by Mr Strode, 'A short treatise of the Combinations, Elections, Permutations and Composition of Quantities', which is ready to be published Note, in another hand, is concerned with mathematicians, eg. Drs Wally, Barrows, Baker, who have made contributions to algebra
05 June 1676 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/B1/71
1677