Record Number: 27475

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Reading notes from the dedicatory epistle to Dr John Newton's The Scale of Interest (1668).

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1710 and 31 Dec 1710

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Edward Pordage

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Fellow of King's College. Cambridge

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

John Newton

Title:

The Scale of Interest. Or ye Use of Decimal Fractions With a Table of Logarithms, &c. — For ye use of ye English Mathematical School and Grammar School at Ross in Herefordshire.

Genre:

Textbook / self-education, Mathematics

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1668

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

27475

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Edward Pordage

Title:

Reading Notes

Location:

King's College, Cambridge

Call No:

MS 840.5

Page/Folio:

263-292

Citation:

Edward Pordage, Reading Notes King's College, Cambridge, p. MS 840.5, p. 263-292, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=27475, accessed: 24 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Page images from MS accessed at Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online, where they appear by permission of the Provost and Fellows of King's College, Cambridge.