Evidence: | 'Being weary and almost blind with writing and reading so much today, I took boat at the Old Swan, and there up the River all alone, as high as Puttny almost; and then back again, all the way reading and finishing Mr Boyle's book of Colours, which is so Chymicall that I can understand but little of it, but understand enough to see that he is a most excellent man.' |
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Century: | 1600-1699 | ||||||||||
Date: | 2 Jun 1667 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | afternoon: after dinner daytime |
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Place: | city: London other location: in a boat on the Thames |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Samuel Pepys |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 23 Feb 1633 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Admiralty, Clerk of the Acts |
Religion: | Church of England |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Robert Boyle |
Title: | Experiments and considerations touching colours |
Genre: | Science, Arts / architecture |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1664, first edition |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 14755 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Samuel Pepys | |
Editor: | Robert Latham | |
Title: | The diary of Samuel Pepys | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1974 | |
Vol: | 8 | |
Page: | 247 | |
Additional comments: | Co-editor William Matthews |
Citation: | Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (ed.), The diary of Samuel Pepys (London, 1974), 8, p. 247, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=14755, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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