The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
John Nicholls ( - fl. c. 1706)
Botanist, identified by Petiver as "[o]ur curious Brother." BotanistRelationships: John Nicholls was a friend of James Petiver (c. 1665-Apr 1718)
References in Documents:
Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) A. 9. Wiltshire Fossil is repre
sented, as cut, polisht, and designed for a
white Stars are opake, and the Insterstices transparent as a
Singularity and Beauty. Our curious Brother and Bota
nist Mr.John Nicholls gave me this to figure, with a Peice
of the
Star-flint, Cat. 139. This
sented, as cut, polisht, and designed for a
Snuff -box, its
white Stars are opake, and the Insterstices transparent as a
Mocà-stone, which it equals, if not exceeds, both in its
Singularity and Beauty. Our curious Brother and Bota
nist Mr.
of the
Flintrough.