The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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William Neville ( - fl. 1727)

Correspondent
Relationships: William Neville was a correspondent of Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725)

Linked print sources: as Donator of object(s) - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

An Ivory Multiplication Table; tis about 2 Inches long, and 1 ½ broad, yet can serve for any Sum, from a Farthing to Ten thousand Pounds. It is supposed to have belonged to the Priory of Beauchief in Derbyshire; whence it was brought me by Will. Neville Esq. The Form of the Figures are no just Objection against its Antiquity; for I have a Book printed An. 1493, with those of the like Form in the Golden Number. An Astronomical Instrument of Copper, with various Indexes and Circles, with obsolete Characters, from amongst Mr. Kirk's Curiosities. Two Circular Tables of Numbers, Sines, Tangents, nicely fixed upon seasoned Wood, from the same Musæum. Another of Brass, somewhat resembling a Roman Galley; it seems designed by its moveable Gnomon, for Dialing, but the Figures are antique Non-latin character for 4, S for 5, Λ for 7.