Wickins, John, d.1719 (clergyman)
Person
Dates
- Existence: d.1719
Biography
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Fonds
Manuscript notebook of John Wickins (d. 1719), friend, collaborator, and amanuensis of Isaac Newton, containing English and Latin works of theology and letters attributed to Newton, late seventeenth century
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10345
Content Description
Contents:
fol. i recto, ownership inscription of J. Wickins Trin: Coll Cant (possibly not in the hand of John Wickins), pasted to this leaf is a nineteenth-century note on letter paper (written after 1855, since it refers to Brewster's Memoirs of... Sir Isaac Newton, citing earlier sources, including the account by James Wickins in The Gentleman's Magazine (1802), p. 316, of a flagon and other items from Newton's chambers in Trinity);
fol. ii recto, a further note in a nineteenth-century...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1677-1682; Other: 1677-1880
Found in:
Cambridge University Library