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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
D8760/F/FEP/5/42/83
Former Reference
D3311/19/82
Title
Letter from "Planetarius" to "Mr Spectator", on going to the theatre to see and hear Adam Walker demonstrate his Orrery [a mechanical model of the solar system]
Date
21 May 1806
Description
Starting with copies of verses by Homer (from the Iliad, Book 8, line 555) and Pope (12 lines about the Moon)
Extent
1 sheet
Level
Item
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator
Eleanor Anne Porden, later Eleanor Franklin (1795-1825)
Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
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