1691

Contents:

Newton’s apocalyptic time chart (1691)

Weather register (December 9, 1691-December 31, 1692)

Weather diary

Newton’s apocalyptic time chart   (1691)

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke c. 27, f. 88^r.

Description:   A table illustrating the fulfillment of propohecy of the seven seals, etc., written by Isaac Newton, endorsed by Locke “Revelations 1691”.

Publications:

1. “Schematic interpretation of the Book of Revelation composed by Isaac Newton and sent to John Locke (1690s).” // IN: The Newton Project Canada. Available online at: http://www.isaacnewton.ca/apoc_time_chart/Newton_apocalyptic_chart.pdf [viewed 15 June 2009]

Discussions:   “Newton’s apocalyptic time chart.” // IN: The Newton Project Canada. Available online at: http://www.isaacnewton.ca/apoc_time_chart/ [viewed 15 June 2009]

Weather register, December 9, 1691-December 31, 1692   [MS: March 1704]

Location:   British Library, MS. Sloane 4039, ff. 261-270.

Description:   A fair copy in the hand of Locke’s last manservant William Shaw, with notes in Locke’s hand, with the title “A Register Kept by M^r Locke at Oates.” Not in Locke’s hand, apart from some initial entries, some of the headers, and some annotations. Enclosed in a letter from Locke to Hans Sloane, 15 March 1704 (ff. 259-260) [Letter #3489]. Sloane was in 1704 the secretary of the Royal Society and editor of Philosophical transactions; the manuscript shows editorial markings (by Sloane?) indicating sections not to be included in the printed version, which appeared in the April 1705 issue.

This register is a segment of Locke’s “Weather diary, Oxford and London June 1666-June 1683; Otes Dec 1691-May 1703” [MS. Locke d. 9, pp. 531-471 rev.]

Publications:

1. “A register of the weather for the year 1692, kept at Oates in Essex.” By Mr. John Locke. // IN: Philosophical transactions. For the month of April 1705. Numb. 298:1917-1937.
2. [Locke’s complete weather register will be included in:] Writings on natural philosophy and medicine / John Locke ; edited by Peter Anstey and Lawrence Principe. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, forthcoming. – (The Clarendon edition of the works of John Locke)

Discussions:   De Beer, vol. 8:239.

Weather diary (1691 from December 9)

See   description under 1666.