IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS/21
Held at: Royal Society
Title: Wallis, John (1616-1703)
Date(s): 1685
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Wallis | John | 1616-1703 | mathematician
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Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1616; Education: School at Ashford; James Mouat's School at Ley Green, near Tenterden, Kent; Felsted School (for 2 years); Emmanuel College, Cambridge; BA (1637), MA (1640); Incorporated at Oxford (1649); DD (Oxford 1654); Incorporated from Oxford (1656); Career: Ordained (1640); Chaplain to Sir Richard Darley (1640-1642) and to Mary, Baroness Vere (1642-1644); employed by Parliament to decipher intercepted dispatches (1642-1645); Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge (1644-1645); Secretary to the Westminster Assembly (1644); Original Fellow of the Royal Society; Rector of St Gabriel's, Fenchurch Street, London (1645-1647); Minister of St Martin's, Ironmonger Lane, London (1647); Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford (1649-1703); Keeper of the Archives at Oxford (1654-1703); Justice of the Peace; Decipherer to William III; opposed the adoption of the Gregorian calendar (1692).
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Scope and content/abstract:
Manuscript of a treatise on logic by John Wallis, 1685.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Single volume.
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Open.
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No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
Physical characteristics:
Paper, bound, size 8 x 6 inches, 94 ff.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.