The John Bargrave Collection
Cosimo III, de Medici (14 Aug 1642 - 31 Oct 1723)
Visited the Royal Society on 25 April 1669. His companion, Count Lorenzo Magalatti, recorded their visit and what they say, including the repository:"The cabinet, which is under the care of Dr. Hooke, a man of genius, and of much esteem in experimental matters, was founded by Daniel Colwal, now Treasurer of the Academy, and is full of the greatest rarities, brought from the most distant parts; such as quadrupeds, birds, fishes, serpents, insects, shells, feathers, seeds, minerals, and many petrifactions, mummies, and gums; and every day, in order to enrich it still more, the Academicians contribute every thing of value which comes into their hands; so that in time it will be the most beautiful, the largest, and the most curious, in respect to natural productions, that is any where to be found. Amongst these curiosities, the most remarkable are: an ostrich, whose young were always born alive; an herb which grew in the stomach of a thrush; and the skin of a moor, tanned, with the beard and hair white: but more worthy of observation than all the rest, is a clock, whose movements are derived from the vicinity of a loadstone, and it is so adjusted as to discover the distance of countries at sea by the longitude." (Weld, I.219)
Grew lists a head and leg of an Ostrich (Grew_01640 and Grew_01645) and a tanned skin of a Moor (Grew_00025).
Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosimo_III_de%27_Medici,_Grand_Duke_of_Tuscany Roles: Traveller
Visitor
Relevant locations: Title (royalty or holy order) Tuscany
Visited Oxford Anatomy School
Visited Royal Society of London
People linked to person: Cosimo III, de Medici was a father of Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici (11 Aug 1667-18 Feb 1743)
Cosimo III, de Medici was a visitor to the collection of Oxford Anatomy School (-)
Cosimo III, de Medici was a visitor to the collection of Royal Society (-)
Ferdinand II (de Medici) [Grand Duke of Tuscany] (1610-1670) was a father of Cosimo III, de Medici
Lorenzo Magalotti (24 Oct 1637-2 Mar 1712) was a travelling companion of Cosimo III, de Medici