The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
William Godolphin, Sir (1635 - 1696)
Diplomat and member of parliament. Received his knighthood on 28 August 1668. Probably the William Godolphin who donated a sample of Copper Ore from Cornwall to Thoresby's collection (468). Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi-org.cyber.usask.ca/10.1093/ref:odnb/10883 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Godolphin_(diplomat) Relevant locations: Birth place in Cornwall, EnglandLinked print sources: as Mentions or references - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
References in Documents:
Copper and Lead
of Tin with
Mundickand
Pyrites;
ed and ingenious
Woodward
Copper
Basset
Tinin it) from a different Mine of
Basset
Will. Godolphin
rich in
Tin.
Copper
Don.
greatest Curiosity relating to this Metal was sent me from
William Sykes
An
informed) several of them were found in the Copper Grove at
it is a most regular
, hath six angular Points, and consequentOctoedra
ly eight solid Triangles, or as many
Pyramidsjoined in Base; the Fi
gure of it may be seen in the
Phil. Trans. N° 277
for Metals, as well as their
Fluoresor Spars, to strike into various and
exact Mathematical Figures, wherein Nature seems to attempt what
she hath brought to Perfection in this, which is the most curious, and
in the Opinion of most competent Judges, beyond any Thing that
with a
Lead Oreand
Sulphur
of their several Veins that have begun to shoot out in such regular
Forms.
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