| Authorised form of name | Senex; John (- 1740) |
| Other forms of surname | Senez |
| Dates | - 1740 |
| Date of death | 30 December 1740 |
| Activity | Career:
Publisher of scientific tracts and a prolific map and globe maker in London Owned a shop in Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, London. After his death his business was continued by Mary Senex, his wife, and then James Ferguson
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 27/06/1728 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
P Fontes da Costa, 'The Culture of Curiosity at The Royal Society in the first half of the eighteenth century', NR 2002 vo l56 pp 147-166
Authority:
Altname from election Cert I, 152 (Charles Lockyer) |
| Code | NA327 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EL/G2/35 | Letter, from John Grundy to John Senex, dated at Spalding | 23 June 1739 |
| LBO/23/61 | Copy letter from Charles Mason, Trinity College Cambridge, to John Senex | 27 February 1736/1737 |
| CLP/7ii/16/2 | Figure, celestial globe by John Senex | 1738 |
| CLP/7ii/18 | Letter, regarding poles of the diurnal motion in a celestial globe from John Senex to Cromwell Mortimer | 20 April 1739 |
| RBO/16/27 | 'An account of a part of the left horn of a Stag drawn out of Ravens Barrow hold adjoining to holker Old Park by the net of a Fisherman on 20 June 1727' by J Hopkins in a letter to John Senex | 1731 |
| CLP/7ii/16 | Paper, 'A contrivance to make the poles of the diurnal motion in a celestial globe pass round the poles of the ecliptic' by John Senex | 1738 |
| CLP/7ii/16/1 | Manuscript, 'A contrivance to make the poles of the diurnal motion in a celestial globe pass round the poles of the ecliptic' by John Senex | 1738 |
| CLP/7ii/17 | Copy paper, A contrivance for making the poles of the diurnal motion, in a calestial globe, pass round the poles of the ecliptick' by John Senex | 1738 |
| RBO/21/25 | 'A contrivance to make the poles of the diurnal Motion in a celestial Globe pass round the Poles of the Ecliptic Invented by John Senex' | 1738 |