| RefNo | CLP/1/20/1 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Manuscripts, regarding a rule of gunnery by [Edmond Halley and George Tollet?] |
| Date | [1685] |
| Description | Edmond Halley's diagram for illustrating a rule of gunnery, shown to William Molyneux when they met in London. This was given to George Tollet (d. 1719) by Molyneux's father, Captain Samuel Molyneux. Tollet was a self-taught teacher of mathematics in Dublin and one of the earliest members of the Dublin Philosophical Society.
Tollet wrote to Charles Willoughby on 4 July 1685 and mentioned that he had worked out a general rule using a different construction. This was read to the Dublin Philosophical Society on 6 July 1685, and then sent by St George Ashe to Francis Aston in a letter dated 4 July 1685. It was read to the Royal Society at its meeting on 22 July 1685. (See Papers of the Dublin Philosophical Society, ed. by K. Theodore Hoppen, 2 vols (Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2008), I, 458n).
Subject: Geometry / Physics |
| Extent | 8p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | LBC/10/221 |
| LBO/10/179 |
| RelatedRecord | CLP/1/20 |
| CLP/1/20/2 |
| CLP/1/20/3 |
| CLP/1/20/4 |
| CLP/1/20/5 |
| CLP/1/20/6 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8423 | Halley; Edmond (1656 - 1742); astronomer | 1656 - 1742 |
| NA517 | Tollet; George (c 1684 - 1714) | c 1684 - 1714 |
| NA5638 | Molyneux; William (1656 - 1698); natural philosopher and writer | 1656 - 1698 |