Ref NoLDGSL/904
TitlePrinted advertisement for Nathaniel John Larkin's wooden crystal models
Date[c.1820s]
Date NoteAdvertises geometrical models which may be related to his publication of 1820.
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Extent1 small item
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DescriptionPrinted advertisement for Nathaniel John Larkin's wooden crystal models, [c.1820s].
Administrative HistoryNathaniel John Larkin was born in London, 5 December, 1781. At the age of nineteen he went to the Orkney islands, to establish a straw-plat manufactory, which he superintended for some years. He subsequently returned to London, and became noted for his models of crystals, illustrating Hauy's 'Traite de Mineralogie', and likewise the views of Dr Wollaston, Professors Mohs and Jameson, and other writers of scientific eminence. He constructed a cube of spherical molecules, uniform with the tetrahedron and octahedron of Dr Wollaston, from whom he received much friendly encouragement and assistance. He also arranged a very complete and comprehensive set of Geometrical Solids, and published three books in explanation of them, the most important of which was his 'Introduction to Solid Geometry, and to the Study of Crystallography' a work which appeared in the year 1820. He was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1816, to the President (G B Greenough, Esq) and other members of which he dedicated his book. He died on the 21st of October, 1855, being in the 74th year of his age.
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LanguageEnglish
ArchNoteDescription by John Thackray
CreatorNameLARKIN | Nathaniel John | 1781-1855 | crystallographer and mathematician
TermAdvertisements
Crystallography
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DS/UK/766LARKIN; Nathaniel John (1781-1855); crystallographer and mathematician1781-1855
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