Paper, 'The history of arts, illiberal and mechanick' by John Evelyn
Reference number: CLP/3i/1
Date: 01 January 1660
Description
Evelyn provides categorised lists of mechanic and 'illiberal' trades and occupations. His categories are as follows:
- Usefull and purely mechanic
- Meane trades
- Servile
- Rusticall
- Femal [female] artifices
- Polite and more liberall
- Curious
- Exotick, and very rare seacretts [secrets]
Subject: Art / Trade
Read to the Royal Society on 16 January 1660.
- Reference number
- CLP/3i/1
- Earliest possible date
- 01 January 1660
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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John Evelyn, Paper, 'The history of arts, illiberal and mechanick' by John Evelyn, 01 January 1660, CLP/3i/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_3i_1/paper-the-history-of-arts-illiberal-and-mechanick-by-john-evelyn, accessed on 03 December 2024
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Classified papers: volume 3i concerning 'Mechanicks, Trades, Engineering, Navigation'
Reference number: CLP/3i
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