Folkes Editor (3 results)

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.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 244 pages. 9.01x5.98x0.55 inches. In Stock.

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 protégé, 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".…