The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
William Cole (1635 - 1716)
Physician educated at Gloucester Hall, Oxford. He practiced in Worcester, moving to London around 1692 and elected a fellow of the College of Physicians. Later retired to the country and was buried at Allesley, near Coventry. John Beaumont reported on Cole's collection. Other biography: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Cole,_William_(1635-1716) Collector (minor)Relevant locations: Residence at Bristol, Bristol
Relationships: William Cole was a visited by John Beaumont (c.1640-1731)
Linked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - A discourse concerning the spiral, instead of the supposed annular structures of the fibres of the instestins; discover'd and shewn by the learn'd and inquisitive Dr. William Cole to the R. Society .
as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Part of a letter from Mr. William Cole of Bristol to the publisher, about the grains resembling wheat which fell lately in Wilt-shire.
as Subject of/in a document - A Forgotten Naturalist of the Seventeenth Century: William Cole of Bristol and His Collections .
as Subject of/in a document - Establishing the New Science: The Experience of the Early Royal Society.
as Subject of/in a document - Magic and Mental Disorder: Sir Hans Sloane's Memoir of John Beaumont.
References in Documents:
nus Flabelli formis cortice verrucoso obductus
327.
White shrubbySea=Heath .
Part of a very large
branch of this Mr.
branch of this Mr
received from
in
mark
a smaller branch of which I lately saw gathered by Dr.
on the Coast of
wherein the Valvulæ conniventes observed by
delineated by
It is observed (a) a)
soph. Trans.
N. 125.
these Valves,
but the Fibers of the inner Muscular Mem
brane of the
Guts are admirably continu'd in a spiral Line,
all along from the
Stomach to the very Anus.
Part of a Letter from
Mr.William Cole
of
to the Publisher, about theGrains
resemblingWheat
which fell lately in
Reports of Raining Wheat about
Places within Six or Eight Miles of it, and many believe
it; I have procured several Parcels of it, and
carefully ex
amined them, and find it to be the seeds of Ivy-Berries,
which from Towers
and Churches, Chimneys, Walls and
high Buildings, were lately by very fierce Tempests of
Wind and Hail, driven away from the
holes, chinks and o
ther parts where Birds had brought them,
especially Sterlings and
Choughs: It were to little purpose to tell you the
prodigious Stories which have been made of it; among ma
ny others, it was confidently affirmed (and backt by se
veral, who affirmed they had seen it) that those Grains
were found in the Hail, as Seeds in Comfits: I do here
acquaint you with it (upon Notice I had of some who
have sent several
Relations of it) to the end you may inform them of the
Truth; For I have by all the ways I can Imagine exami
ned and compared them with the Seeds of
IvyBerries, by
the tast, smell, size, and Figure; with the assistance of
Magnifying Glasses, viewing them in both the superficial
and inward Parts. This perhaps they may have discove
red before this comes to their Hands, if they desire farther
Satisfaction concerning it, I shall be ready to serve
them,
&c.
Part of a Letter from
Mr.William Cole
of
to the Publisher, about theGrains
resemblingWheat
which fell lately in