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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 |