The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Royal Society Repository
Royal Society of London (Institution), London (Settlement), Gresham College (Institution), Crane Court (Address), London (Settlement), Fleet Street (Address), London (Settlement), England
View Larger MapPeople associated with this location: Erndtel, Christian Heinrich (1676 -1734) - Visited
Wortley Montagu, Mary (15 May 1689- 21 Aug 1762) - Visited
Print Sources linked to this location: Mentioned - The ornithology of Francis Willughby ... : in three books: wherein all the birds hitherto known ... are accurately described: the descriptions illustrated by most elegant figures, nearly resembling the live birds, engraven in LXXVIII copper plates: translated into English, and enlarged with many additions throughout the whole work. To which are added, three considerable discourses, I. Of the art of fowling: with a description of several nets in two large copper plates. II. Of the ordering of singing birds. III. Of falconry. By John Ray.
Subject of discourse or work of art - A New View of London; or, an ample account of that city, in two volumes, or eight sections.
Subject of discourse or work of art - Newton's Telescope and the Cataloguing of the Royal Society's Repository.
Subject of discourse or work of art - Pepy's Diary and the New Science.
Visited - Epistola ad Amicum.
Other Links: https://royalsociety.org/exhibitions/2008/repository/ - History of the Repository