Entry: 1
Date: 19 May [1685]
Hand: Greg
Entry: 2
Date: 19 May [1685]
Hand: Greg
Entry: 2a
Date: 19 May [1685]
Note: See headnote concerning the confused composition of the opening pages
of this workdiary.
Hand: unidentified
Entry: 2b
Date: 19 May [1685]
Note: See headnote concerning the confused composition of the opening pages
of this workdiary.
Hand: Greg
Entry: 3
Date: On or after 29 May [1685] and before 9
January 1686
Note: This entry was evidently recopied from
earlier notes
Hand: C
Entry: 4
Date: On or after 29 May [1685] and before 9
January 1686
Note: See headnote concerning the confused composition of the opening pages
of this workdiary.
Note: This entry was evidently recopied from
earlier notes
Hand: Greg
Entry: 6
Date: On or after 29 May [1685] and before 9
January 1686
Note: The previous entry, number 4, breaks
off abruptly at the end of p. 258 (the last page of a foolscap bifoliate) and
continues on p. 276 There is no entry #5 following the conclusion of entry #4
on p. 276. It is not known where the missing entry #5 is located, if indeed it
was ever written.
Hand: Greg
Entry: 7
Date: On or after 29 May [1685] and before 9
January 1686
Hand: Greg
Entry: 8
Date: On or after 29 May [1685] and before 9
January 1686
Hand: Greg
Entry: 9
Date: On or after 29 May [1685] and before 9
January 1686
Hand: Greg
Entry: 10
Date: On or after 29 May [1685] and before 9
January 1686
Hand: Greg
Entry: 11
Date:
1686
Hand: Greg
Entry: 12
Date: 9 Jan 86
Note: The context of this account is
introduced separately in entry 11
Hand: Greg
Entry: 13
Date:
1685
Hand: Greg
Entry: 14
Date:
1685
Hand: Greg
Entry: 15
Date:
1685
Note: This entry was evidently recopied from
earlier notes
Hand: Greg
Entry: 16
Date:
1685
Note: This entry was evidently recopied from
earlier notes
Note: Although this entry does not have a
number written in the margin, the following entry is clearly marked as '17',
thus suggesting that this is indeed intended to be #16
Hand: Greg
Entry: 17
Date:
1685
Hand: Greg
Entry: 18
Date:
1685
Hand: Greg
Entry: 19
Date:
1685
Note: This entry has been crossed through
from its beginning down to the point of a heavy line drawn across the page
separating this entry from the next. Perhaps this line is 'the break' noted in
the marginal note 'Tb'd to the break'.
Note: In the printed version of this account
found in Languid Motion, the narrator is merely noted as 'Sir J. C.' This
manuscript version helps us to identify him as Sir John Chardin
Hand: Greg
Entry: 20
Date:
1685
Note: This entry should be 20, as the
preceding is 19 and the following is 21; but the actual number is not written
in the margin
Note: Entry is crossed through in
pencil
Hand: Greg
Entry: 21
Date:
1685
Note: A heavy line drawn across the page
after this entry separates it from the next one
Note: Entry crossed through in pencil
Hand: Greg
Entry: 22
Date:
1685
Note: A heavy line drawn across the page
above the enry separates it from the previous one
Hand: Greg
Entry: 23
Date:
1685
Note: Most of the pages in the workdiaries
are formed from a single foolscap sheet folded in half, thus creating 4 sides
to write on. However, one half of the foolscap on which pages 267-8 are written
on has been cut off, leaving only those two sides remaining. We do not know
where the other half of this foolscap is located or what it may contain. Other
evidence suggests that there was some disruption to the composition of this
workdiary at this stage. A hand different from Greg takes over from the end of
the preceding entry and finishes off p. 268. Page 269 starts a new group of
four foolscap sides, and it is it repeats the number 25 for its first
entry.
Hand: uncertain
Entry: 24
Date:
1685
Note: Most of the pages in the workdiaries
are formed from a single foolscap sheet folded in half, thus creating 4 sides
to write on. However, one half of the foolscap on which pages 267-8 are written
on has been cut off, leaving only those two sides remaining. We do not know
where the other half of this foolscap is located or what it may contain. Other
evidence suggests that there was some disruption to the composition of this
workdiary at this stage. A hand different from Greg takes over from the end of
the preceding entry and finishes off p. 268. Page 269 starts a new group of
four foolscap sides, and it is it repeats the number 25 for its first
entry.
Hand: uncertain
Entry: 25
Date:
1685
Note: The author of this French passage has
not been identified
Note: Most of the pages in the workdiaries
are formed from a single foolscap sheet folded in half, thus creating 4 sides
to write on. However, one half of the foolscap on which pages 267-8 are written
on has been cut off, leaving only those two sides remaining. We do not know
where the other half of this foolscap is located or what it may contain. Other
evidence suggests that there was some disruption to the composition of this
workdiary at this stage. A hand different from Greg takes over from the end of
the preceding entry and completes p. 268. Page 269 starts a new group of four
foolscap sides, and it is it repeats the number 25 for its first entry.
Note: This entry was evidently recopied from
earlier notes
Hand: Greg
Entry: 25a
Date:
1685
Note: The last entry on the preceding page is
also numbered 25. See the note there for a discussion of the unusual
arrangement of these pages which suggests that there may have been some
disruption in the composition of this workdiary
Note: This account was printed in
Experimenta et Observationes Physicae
(1691),
Works, pp.
398-400
Hand: Greg
Entry: 26
Date:
1685
Hand: Greg
Entry: 27
Date: 1685
Note: This and the following entries were
evidently recopied from earlier notes
Hand: Greg
Entry: 27a
Date: On or after 26 May
Hand: Greg
Entry: 28
Date: 1685
Hand: Greg
Entry: 29
Date: 1685
Hand: Greg
Entry: 30
Date: 1685
Hand: Greg
Entry: 31
Date: 1684-5
Hand: Greg
Entry: 32
Date:
1685
Hand: Greg
Entry: 33
Date:
1685
Hand: Greg
Entry: 34
Date:
1685
Note: This and the following entries were
evidently recopied from earlier notes
Note: This entry is clearly dated 13 November
1684, while entries 11-13 and 16 are dated from early January 1685, an
unnumbered entry on p. 263 is dated from July 1685, and entry 36 on p. 277 is
dated 27 February 1685. It would appear that this entry is out of sequence in
the chronological order of these entries, or was a previously recorded entry
only entered into the workdiary early in 1685. The four-page bifolium in which
this entry appears also contains p. 276, which is the continuation (written
upside down) of the earlier entry 4, begun on p. 257-8. Perhaps this bifolium
does indeed represent entries written down at an earlier time, but then
incorporated into the workdiary at this stage, and numbered accordingly
Hand: Greg
Entry: 35
Date:
1685
Note: The page following this entry, p. 276,
is the conclusion of entry 4, begun on pp. 258-9. The content of p. 276 can be
found with that entry above
Hand: Greg
Entry: 36
Date:
1685
Note: This entry, which starts a fresh
four-page bifolium, appears to pick up the dating in early 1685 which is
interrupted by the bifoliate pp. 273-6. Check if this is correct. Last
explicitly dated entry is 17 for July 1685
Hand: Greg
Entry: 37
Date:
8 May 1686
Hand: Greg
Entry: 38
Date:
8 May 1686
Note: Although numbered as a separate entry,
this is really the second of a number of points and accounts discussed by
'Captain S.' and introduced
in entry 37
Hand: Greg
Entry: 39
Date:
1686
Note: Although numbered as a separate entry,
this is really the third of a number of points and accounts discussed by
'Captain S.' and introduced
in entry 37
Hand: Greg
Entry: 40
Date:
1686
Note: Although numbered as a separate entry,
this is really one of a number of points and accounts discussed by
'Captain S.' and introduced
in entry 37
Hand: Greg
Entry: 41
Date:
1686
Note: Although numbered as a separate entry,
this is really one of a number of points and accounts discussed by
'Captain S.' and introduced
in entry 37
Hand: Greg
Entry: 42
Date:
1686
Note: Although numbered as a separate entry,
this is really one of a number of points and accounts discussed by
'Captain S.' and introduced
in entry 37
Hand: Greg
Entry: 43
Date:
1686
Note: Although numbered as a separate entry,
this is really one of a number of points and accounts discussed by
'Captain S.' and introduced
in entry 37
Hand: Greg
Entry: 44
Date:
1686
Note: Although numbered as a separate entry,
this is really one of a number of points and accounts discussed by
'Captain S.' and introduced
in entry 37
Hand: Greg
Entry: 45
Date: 1686
Note: Although numbered as a separate entry,
this is really one of a number of points and accounts discussed by
'Captain S.' and introduced
in entry 37
Hand: Greg
Entry: 46
Date: 1686
Hand: Greg
Entry: 47
Date: 1686
Reference:
General History of the Air (
Works
12:
?
Hand: Greg
Entry: 48
Date: 1686
Reference:
General History of the Air (
Works
12:
?)
Hand: Greg
Entry: 49
Date: 1686
Hand: Greg
Entry: 50
Date: 1686
Note: A line drawn under this passage
separates it from the following one
Hand: Greg
Entry: 51
Date:
7 June 1686
Note: A line drawn above this entry separates
it from the preceding one
Hand: Greg
Entry: 52
Date: 1686
Hand: Greg
Entry: 53
Date: 1686
Hand: Greg
Entry: 54
Date: 1686
Reference:
General History of the Air (
Works
12:
?)
Hand: Greg
Entry: 55
Date: 1686
Hand: Greg
Entry: 56
Date: 1686
Hand: Greg
Entry: 57
Date: 1686
Hand: Greg
Entry: 58
Date:
23. December 1686
Note: Boyle's informant has not been
identified
Hand: Greg
Entry: 59
Date:
23 March 86/7
Hand: Greg
Entry: 60
Date:
23 March 86/7
Hand: Greg
Entry: 61
Date:
23 March 86/7
Hand: Greg
Entry: 62
Date:
23 March 86/7
Hand: Greg
Entry: 63
Date:
23 March 86/7
Hand: Greg
Entry: 64
Date:
23 March 86/7
Hand: Greg
Entry: 65
Date:
23 March 86/7
Hand: Greg
Entry: 66
Date:
April 11
Note: This entry was evidently recopied from
earlier notes
Hand: Greg
Entry: 67
Date: 1687
Note: This entry was evidently recopied from
earlier notes
Hand: Greg
Entry: 68
Date:
4 May 1687
Note: This entry was evidently recopied from
earlier notes
Hand: Greg
Entry: 69
Date: 1687
Hand: Greg
Entry: 70
Date: 1687
Hand: Greg
Entry: 71
Date: 1687
Hand: Greg
Entry: 72
Date: 1687
Hand: Greg
Entry: 73
Date:
19 March 1687
Note: The data of this experiment is split
between three entries, this one and the following two ones. The actual figures
from the trial are given in entry 74.
Note: This entry was evidently recopied from
earlier notes
Hand: Greg
Entry: 74
Date:
19 March 1687
Hand: Greg
Entry: 75
Date:
22 April 1687
Hand: Greg
Entry: 76
Date: 1687
Hand: Greg
Entry: 77
Date: 1687
Hand: Greg
Entry: 78
Date: 1687
Hand: Greg
Entry: 79
Date:
31 March 1688
Note: This entry was evidently recopied from
earlier notes
Hand: unidentified
Entry: 80
Date:
13 February 1689
Hand: Greg
Entry: 81
Date:
13 February 1689
Hand: Greg
Entry: 82
Date:
13 February 1689
Hand: Greg
Entry: 83
Date:
13 February 1689
Hand: Greg
Entry: 84
Date:
13 April 1689.
Hand: Greg
Entry: 85
Date:
13 April 1689.
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 86
Date:
13 April 1689.
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 87
Date:
23 May 1689.
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 89
Date:
23 May 1689.
Note: The authorial numbering sequence skips
from 87 to 89 here, and there is no entry 88 elsewhere in this workdiary. The
reason for this omission is not known.
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 90
Date:
23 May 1689.
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 91
Date:
6 December 1689
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 92
Date:
6 December 1689
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 93
Date:
6 December 1689
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 94
Date:
24 December 1689
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 95
Date:
24 Dec 89.
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 96
Date:
Dec. 31
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 97
Date: January 1690
Date:
Jan. 2. 89
Note: Apparently a repeat or a second attempt
at the observations recorded in entry 95
Note: Square brackets surrounding 'An
Ingenious man ... in other parts of the world' (thus surrounding the complete
texts of this and the following entry) are scribe's own and are not
editorial
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 98
Date:
Jan. 2. 89
Note: Apparently a repeat or a second attempt
at the observations recorded in entry #95
Note: Square brackets surrounding 'An
Ingenious man ... in other parts of the world' (thus surrounding the complete
texts of the preceding entry and this one) are scribe's own and are not
editorial
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 97a
Date:
Jan. 2. 89
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 98a
Date:
2 January 1690
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 99
Date:
2 January 1690
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 100
Date:
2 January 1690
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 101
Date: 1 January 1690
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 102
Date: 10 January 1690
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 103
Date: 18 January 1690
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 104
Date: 22 January 1690
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 105
Date: 24 May 1690
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 106
Date: 2 August 1690
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 107
Date: 14 August 1690
Note: This entry is followed by a large space
of approximately half the page
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 108
Date: 8 September 1690
Note: This entry is preceded by a large
space, of approximately half the page
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 109
Date: 29 August 1690
Note: This entry ends abruptly after four
lines and the remainder of the page is completely blank
Note: This entry was evidently recopied from
slightly earlier notes [i.e., the date stays as after 8 Sept./before 24
Oct.]
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 110
Date: 24 October 1690
Note: This page ends abruptly after two lines
and the remainder of the page is completely blank
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 111
Date: 24 October 1690
Note: Very similar in content to entry #60
narrated by William Bond
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 112
Date: 24 October 1690
Note: Very similar in content to entry 62 on
p. 285 narrated by William Bond
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 113
Date: 24 October 1690
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 114
Date: Dec 23 91.
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 115
Date: Dec 23 91.
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 116
Date: 11 February 1691
Note: This entry was evidently recopied from
slightly earlier notes [i.e., the date stays as after 8 Sept./before 24
Oct.]
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 117
Date: 23 February 1691
Hand: uncertain-Greg
Entry: 118
Date: 23 February 1691
Note: This entry was evidently recopied from
slightly earlier notes [i.e., the date stays as after 8 Sept./before 24
Oct.]
Hand: uncertain-Greg