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Document ReferencePw V 142
TitleMS poem, entitled 'Alsopus Keilo S.D.' by Anthony Alsop; n.d.
Extent2 ff
LevelItem/file
Content DescriptionText consists of a 56-line poem in fourteen Sapphic stanzas on the mathematician and astronomer John Keill, a pupil of David Gregory at Edinburgh, who gave the first experimental lectures on natural philosophy at Oxford.

Printed version entitled 'Johanni Keil'.
Title Of WorkAlsopus Keilo S.D.
First Line of PoemKeile, derisor nisi falsa mittat
Last Line of PoemDote beabo
LanguageLatin
Physical DescriptionOne folio folded once to form two quartos
ConditionGood
Descriptive FeaturesCountermark: Letters HR, 13 x 31 mm

Italic
Related MaterialUniversity of Nottingham Library: Pw V 143-44
University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 151/8
Publication NoteAlsop, Anthony, Odarum Libri Duo (London, 1752) pp 33-5

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Persons
CodePersonNameDates of existence
NA74399Keill; John (1671-1721); Professor; mathematician and astronomer1671-1721
NA74398Gregory; David (1661-1708); -1661-1708
NA73032Alsop; Anthony (-1726); Dr-1726
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