Evidence: | 'Up and to my office, where all the morning - and part of it Sir J Mennes spent as he doth everything else, like a fool, reading the Anatomy of the body to me, but so sillily as to the making of me understand anything that I was weary of him.' |
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Century: | 1600-1699 | ||||||||||
Date: | 14 Oct 1663 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | morning | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London other location: in Samuel Pepys's office |
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Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Sir John Mennes [or Minnes] |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
Occupation: | Comptroller of the Navy |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Samuel Pepys |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [unknown] |
Title: | [anatomy of the body] |
Genre: | Science, Medicine |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 12028 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Samuel Pepys | |
Editor: | Robert Latham | |
Title: | The diary of Samuel Pepys | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1970 | |
Vol: | 4 | |
Page: | 334 | |
Additional comments: | Co-editor William Matthews |
Citation: | Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (ed.), The diary of Samuel Pepys (London, 1970), 4, p. 334, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12028, accessed: 18 April 2024 |
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