IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.4948-4950
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Viviani, Vincenzio (1622-1703)
Date(s): 1653-1701
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 3 items
Name of creator(s): Viviani | Vincenzio | 1622-1703 | engineer and mathematician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Viviani was a Florentine engineer and mathematician: he was elected an Associate Member of the Académie des Sciences in 1699.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Vincenzo Viviani comprising administrative documentation, an inscription by Viviani honouring Galileo, and a treatise on land reclamation, 1653-1701.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Italian and Latin
System of arrangement:
As outlined in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Described in: S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
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Archival history:
From the Galletti Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased 1929.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009