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Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob (1672-1733)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS 48

Held at: Royal Society

Title: Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob (1672-1733)

Date(s): 1703-1704

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 4 volumes

Name of creator(s): Scheuchzer | Johann Jakob | 1672-1733 | physician, naturalist and historian

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in Zurich, Switzerland, 1672; Research Fields: Medicine, natural history, mathematics, geology, geophysics; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1703; died, 1733.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

'Descriptio Itineris Alpini, Annis 1703, 1704 et 1705, per summas Helvetiae et totius Europae Alpes facti, a J Jacobo Scheuchzero, MD, Mathescos Professore Societatum Leopoldinae et Regiarum Anglicae et Prussiacae Membro'. Descriptions of journeys in the Alps by J J Scheuchzer, in four volumes:
Volume 1, 60 ff and 23 sheets of drawings
Volume 2, 109 ff and 39 sheets of drawings
Volume 3, 25 ff and 12 sheets of drawings
Volume 4, 279 ff and 13 sheets of drawings.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Four volumes, paper, bound.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

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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.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Mountaineering | Sport | Leisure time activities | Leisure
Mountains | Land forms | Topography | Geomorphology

Personal names
Scheuchzer | Johann Jakob | 1672-1733 | physician, naturalist and historian

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