The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester (1601 - 1667)
Courtier and inventor with interest in experimental science Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26006 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Somerset,_2nd_Marquess_of_Worcester Authority - early modernRelevant locations: Title (royalty or holy order) Worcester, Worcestershire
Relationships: Caspar Kalthoff (1606-1664) was a employed by Edward Somerset
William Lambert (-) was a employed by Edward Somerset
Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - London in 1710, from the Travels of Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach .
as Subject of/in a document - A century of the names and scantlings of such inventions as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, which, my former notes being lost, I have, at the instance of a powerful friend, endeavoured now in the year 1655, to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in practice.
References in Documents:
London in 1710, from the travels of Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach Finally
Herr Karp showed us yet another rare book
entitled: Worcester , London
1663 [*] Baron von
Nimptsch protested, moreover that the Duke
of Buckingham had in his possession
several other sketches of all kinds of machines invented by till above-mentioned
author, which he had himself drawn but never published.
A Centuns of the, names and Scantlings of such inventions as at present &c., by
London in 1710, from the travels of Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach