Lectiones Cutlerianae, or A collection of lectures, physical, mechanical, geographical & astronomical : made before the Royal Society on several occasions at Gresham Colledge [i.e. College] : to which are added divers miscellaneous discourses

Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703, Hevelius, Johannes, 1611-1687. Machina coelestis, Martyn, John, active 1649-1680, publisher, T. R., printer, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, former owner. DSI, Burndy Library, donor. DSI, Royal Society (Great Britain) · 1679 · London : Printed for John Martyn, printer to the Royal Society, at the Bell in S. Pauls Church-yard · 1 picture

Lectiones Cutlerianae is a 1679 London collection of lectures by Robert Hooke, printed for John Martyn, printer to the Royal Society, and delivered before that society at Gresham College on physics, mechanics, geography and astronomy. The plate shows a pencil-ruled technical drawing of a coiled spring, a wheeled mechanism and geometric construction lines on aged paper, useful to a designer for its diagrammatic linework, spiral forms and early scientific instrument drawing.

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