Workdiary 37 ('The XVI Century')

Content: Experimental notes, accounts and observations from 1686-90, many concerning the specific gravity of various substances

General Information

• Creation: 1686-90
• Hands: Hugh Greg (all entries except 73 and unnumbered entries at end of work-diary) uncertain hand (perhaps a formal hand of Hugh Greg) (unnumbered entries at end of work-diary) Thomas Smith (one line in entry 81) unidentified hand (entry 73)
• Source: Royal Society, Boyle Papers 21, pp. 191-218
• Languages: English (all entries)
• Languages: English (all entries)
• Format: Folded foolscap sheets
• Note 1: P. 198 is a list which may not be part of the numbered series of workdiary entries. It appears on the reverse of a leaf which is part of the numbered collection, but it is not numbered itself. Nevertheless, it is written in Greg's hand, which could suggest a roughly similar period of composition, and thus it is included in this transcription and assigned an editorial number. The entries on this page are written on the left-hand side of the page, as if two columns were originally intended.
• Note 2: The numbered series making up the 'century' ends on p. 217 and is followed by a page and a half of unnumbered lists of specific gravities and other measurements. These unnumbered lists are included here and are assigned editorial numbers.