Inventory no. 21777 - Former Display Label
English set of GEOMETRIC SOLIDS
c.1700
Boxwood; with mahogany box. Unsigned and undated. A loose piece of paper, inside the box, is inscribed: "D. D. Francisus Burke A. M. Alumnus".
This "... Sett of Sollid Bodys ...", as Thomas Wright called it in his catalogue of 1731, includes 3 tetrahedrons, 10 cubes of various sizes, 3 bisected cubes, 5 quarters and 1 eighth of a cube, 1 octahedron, 2 dodecahedrons, 2 icosahedrons, 2 conic sections, 1 dissected scalene prism, and 1 prismatic body.
[Orrery Collection, no. 43]
Lent by Christ Church.
Other narratives:
- Geometrical solid bodies
- Former Display Label - The Orrery Collection of Scientific Instruments
- Former Display Label - The Principal Makers of Instruments in the Orrery Collection
- Orrery Collection: 1731 Inventory
- Orrery Collection in print
- Accession Record : Extract from Annual Report for 1925