The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
William Neville ( - fl. 1727)
CorrespondentRelationships: 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:
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
shire
Will. NevilleEsq
the Figures are no just Objection against its Antiquity; for I have
a Book printed
An.
Number.
Astronomical
dexes and Circles, with obsolete Characters, from amongst
Kirk
Curiosities.
ly fixed upon seasoned Wood, from the same
Musæum.
, somewhat resembling a
Brass
Brass
RomanGalley; it seems designed by its
moveable
Gnomon, for Dialing, but the Figures are antique