Letter, 'Of a sondiell' from Charles Webb to George Parker
Reference number: L&P/4/264
Date: 20 April 1765
Description
Description of use of sundial, for time-keeping and astronomical purposes. Signed 'Brother Charles Webb, Fraire [sic] Reculois Anglois... Order of St Francis' - likely member of the order of the Franciscan order of the Recollets established in colonial Trois-Rivieres, New-France [Quebec, Canada]. New France had become English two years prior and the British authorities would bannish the order ten years later.
Subject: Engineering
Read 2 May 1765
- Reference number
- L&P/4/264
- Earliest possible date
- 20 April 1765
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 5 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Letter, 'Of a sondiell' from Charles Webb to George Parker, 20 April 1765, L&P/4/264, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_264/letter-of-a-sondiell-from-charles-webb-to-george-parker, accessed on 01 December 2024
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