Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob (1672-1733)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0117 MS 48 |
Held at | : Royal Society Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://royalsociety.org/collections/ › |
Full 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 |
Detailed catalogue | : Click here to view repository detailed catalogue |
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 & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
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Description Notes
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.
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