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1. A sphere projecting against a plane [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1792 i.e. not before 1849]
- Call Number:
- 792.01.03.01.2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Pitt, very thin, stands rigidly erect in profile to the right. Mrs. Hobart, immensely fat, completely fills a globe which stands on a rectangular platform on castors, and whose circumference rests against Pitt's post-like person. She looks up at him expectantly; he stares over her head with a pained expression. Beneath the title is etched: 'Definitions from Euclid. Def: Ist B: 4th. A Sphere, is a Figure bounded by a Convex surface; it is the most perfect of all forms; its Properties are generated from its Centre; and it possesses a larger Area than any other Figure. - Def: 2d B: Ist A Plane, is a perfectly even & regular Surface, it is the most Simple of all Figures ; it has neither the Properties of Length or of Breadth ; and when applied ever so closely to a Sphere, can only touch its Superficies, without being able to enter it - Vide. Euclid, illustrated; by the Honble Mrs Circumference.'"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., "No. 72" in upper right corner., and Restrike of No. 8054 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Jany. 3d. 1792 by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Euclid.
- Subject (Topic):
- Mathematics, Obesity, and Vehicles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A sphere projecting against a plane [graphic].
2. Catoptrica, etc
- Creator:
- Euclid
- Published / Created:
- 1541; [between 1500 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 424
- Image Count:
- 296
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper in three distinct parts. Part I (ff. 1-78): 1) Euclid, Catoptrica. 2) Euclid, Phaenomena. 3) Euclid, Opticarum recensio Theonis. 4) Euclid, Data. Part II (ff. 79-102): 5) Euclid, Data, incomplete at beginning and end. Part III (ff. 103-142): 6) Theodore Metochites, Introductio in Ptolemaei compositionem mathematicam
- Description:
- In Greek., Watermarks: Part I: Harlfinger Ancre 51 (1540, 1541 A. D.). Part II: similar to those in Part I. Part III: Harlfinger Lettres 66., Script: Each part written by a different scribe, all in Greek minuscule. Part I by Valeriano da Forli, who also wrote marginal notes in red and labelled the diagrams., Part I: Headpiece, 3- and 2-line initials with stylized floral motifs and headings in red. Diagrams in margins of geometrical figures drawn with compass. Part II: Headings in red. Diagrams drawn with compass and ruler, labelled in red, and fitted into written space. Part III: 2- to 1-line initials with stylized floral motifs and headings in pale red., Waterstains throughout. On f. 57r, spills, dirt and pen trials; several words effaced or obscured. Discoloration on ff. 1r and 78v suggests that this part was once separate., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Vellum case with a gold-tooled title.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Euclid.
- Subject (Topic):
- Charts, diagrams, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval, Mathematics, Medieval, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Catoptrica, etc
