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Taking Newton on tour : the Grand Tour travel diary of Martin Folkes (1690-1754) / edited by Anna Marie Roos.
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 0072-9396 3rd ser., no. 45.
- Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; Third series, no. 45
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folkes, Martin, 1690-1754--Travel--Europe.
- Folkes, Martin.
- Folkes, Martin, 1690-1754--Diaries.
- Scientists--Great Britain--18th century--Diaries.
- Scientists.
- Grand tours (Education)--18th century.
- Grand tours (Education).
- Genre:
- diaries.
- Diaries
- Diaries.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 259 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps ; 25 cm.
- Other Title:
- Grand Tour travel diary of Martin Folkes (1690-1754)
- Place of Publication:
- London : published by the Boydell Press for the Hakluyt Society : Rochester, NY ; Boydell & Brewer Inc., 2025.
- Summary:
- "This volume provides a critical edition of an exceptional example of the 'Scientific Grand Tour' taken by Martin Folkes. Martin Folkes (1690-1754) was Newton's protégé, antiquary, mathematician, and the only simultaneous president of the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries. In 1733-5, he went on Grand Tour as a scientific ambassador for the Royal Society, demonstrating Newtonian optics to Italian virtuosi. He also measured ancient and Renaissance buildings to understand past architectural engineering and design. His 97-page illustrated diary (in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, shelfmark MS Eng. misc.c.444) also challenges the long-standing, mistaken impression among scholars that the Royal Society was in decline in the eighteenth century. Analysing Folkes's activities abroad and creating an edition from this source tracing his Italian route provides a novel reading of Newtonianism and the purpose of the Grand Tour as a vehicle for scientific research and statesmanship"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction and Provenance of the Diary
- 2. This Historiography of Folkes's Tour
- 3. Taking Newton on Tour
- 4. Cartography, Metrology and Antiquarian Science
- 5. Rome
- 6. Afterword: A Wife and a Life
- Folkes's Tour and Lucretia Bradshaw
- 7. Editorial Conventions
- The Travel Diary of Martin Folkes
- Appendices. A. Martin Folkes's Itinerary
- B. Venetian Coinage, 1700-1800.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-238) and index.
- Contains:
- Folkes, Martin, 1690-1754. Works. Selections.
- ISBN:
- 9781916931190
- 1916931197
- OCLC:
- 1539297880
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000283806
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