Folkes Editor (3 results)
Language: English
Published by Chapman & Hall, Norwell, Massachusetts, U.S.A. 1985
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.Reader's Corner, Inc.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. This is a fine hardcover first edition copy in slick white-mulberry colored binding, no DJ. From a technical company with their namestamp and spine number.
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Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, , United KingdomRevaluation Books
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 244 pages. 9.01x5.98x0.55 inches. In Stock.
Taking Newton on tour : the Grand Tour travel diary of Martin Folkes (1690-1754)
Martin Folkes, Anna Marie Eleanor Roos (Editor), Hakluyt Society (Issuing body)
Language: English
Published by Published by the Boydell Press for the Hakluyt Society, London 2025
- Hardcover
Seller: Joseph Burridge Books, Dagenham, United KingdomJoseph Burridge Books
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. xix, 259 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, maps ; 25 cm. 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 pro…tégé, 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".
