"I had a wonderful mini-vacation there in 2014, fantasizing about Barbary Pirates. /I don't think we in the developed world have experienced the terror they must have felt in 1665 "
It does't usually grab the headlines, by Maritime Piracy is alive and well https://www.icc-ccs.org/
"Mr Spong....and I and W. Hewer to White Hall, and there parting with Spong, a man that I mightily love for his plainness and ingenuity, I into the Court, and there up and down....So staying late talking in the Queen’s side,"
This plan of the Royal Palace of Whitehall [1680] shows a Court below the Palace Gate, to the left of the viewer, above the quarters of the Queen and her maids. http://www.londonancestor.com/map…
Country ham is a variety of heavily salted ham preserved by curing and smoking, associated with the cuisine of the Southern United States.[1] Used as a method of preservation from before widespread refrigeration, country ham is packed in a mixture of salts, sugar, and spices and allowed to cure for a long period of time, sometimes months, and often smoked afterwards. It is extremely dry and salty, often too salty to be palatable on its own. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cou…
"Is this the first experimental evidence that the kinetic energy is proportional to the square of the velocity?"
It isn't recognised that way: The principle in classical mechanics that E ∝ mv2 was first developed by Gottfried Leibniz and Johann Bernoulli, who described kinetic energy as the living force, vis viva. Willem 's Gravesande of the Netherlands provided experimental evidence of this relationship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin…
[I]n 1722 ['s Gravesande] published the results of a series of experiments in which brass balls were dropped from varying heights onto a soft clay surface. He found that a ball with twice the speed of another would leave an indentation four times as deep, from which he concluded that the correct expression for the "live force" of a body in motion (what is modernly called its "kinetic energy") is proportional to mv2.[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil…
Portrayal of Globes in Vermeer's The Astronomer and The Geographer Scholars have argued that the globes depicted in celebrated 17th-century painter Johannes Vermeer's 1668 The Astronomer and 1669 The Geographer were based on a pair of globes by Hondius.[4] Close inspection of these two globes reveals striking similarities to a pair of globes made in 1618 by Hondius. The globes were made as pendants, one depicting the earth while the other depicted the constellations. In Vermeer's The Astronomer the scholar consults a version of Hondius' celestial globe and in The Geographer Hondius' terrestrial globe can be seen placed atop the back cabinet. A version of Hondius' celestial globe can be found in the Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam and the terrestrial globe can be found in The Hispanic Society Museum & Library in New York City. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jod…
Plough Monday is the traditional start of the English agricultural year. While local practices may vary, Plough Monday is generally the first Monday after Twelfth Day (Epiphany), 6 January.[1][2] References to Plough Monday date back to the late 15th century.[2] The day before Plough Monday is sometimes referred to as Plough Sunday. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plo…
""At night my wife read Sir H. Vane’s tryall to me" I would think the government would ban such a book. Didn't you need a license to publish back in those days?" / "Looks like it's just a transcription of the trial, so nothing for the government to be ashamed of there."
The publication of anything could be banned by the censor or by law:
The Ordinance for the Regulating of Printing also known as the Licensing Order of 1643 instituted pre-publication censorship upon Parliamentary England. Milton's Areopagitica was written specifically against this Act.
-----Censorship during the Restoration
After the Restoration of the monarchy in the 1660s, even tighter controls were imposed on the press. A single individual was given the authority to publish an official newspaper along with the responsibility of serving as censor for all other publications. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lic…
The tryal of Sir Henry Vane, Kt. at the Kings Bench, Westminster, June the 2d. and 6th, 1662 together with what he intended to have spoken the day of his sentence (June 11) for arrest of judgment (had he not been interrupted and over-ruled by the court) and his bill of exceptions : with other occasional speeches, &c. : also his speech and prayer, &c. on the scaffold. Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662, defendant., England and Wales. Court of King's Bench. [London: s.n.], 1662. Early English Books Online [total text] https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo…
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About Saturday 11 May 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"I had a wonderful mini-vacation there in 2014, fantasizing about Barbary Pirates. /I don't think we in the developed world have experienced the terror they must have felt in 1665 "
It does't usually grab the headlines, by Maritime Piracy is alive and well
https://www.icc-ccs.org/
Piracy in West Africa: The world's most dangerous seas?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-af…
About Sunday 17 January 1668/69
Terry Foreman • Link
"Mr Spong....and I and W. Hewer to White Hall, and there parting with Spong, a man that I mightily love for his plainness and ingenuity, I into the Court, and there up and down....So staying late talking in the Queen’s side,"
This plan of the Royal Palace of Whitehall [1680] shows a Court below the Palace Gate, to the left of the viewer, above the quarters of the Queen and her maids. http://www.londonancestor.com/map…
About Saturday 8 June 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
Sounds like coungry ham
Country ham is a variety of heavily salted ham preserved by curing and smoking, associated with the cuisine of the Southern United States.[1] Used as a method of preservation from before widespread refrigeration, country ham is packed in a mixture of salts, sugar, and spices and allowed to cure for a long period of time, sometimes months, and often smoked afterwards. It is extremely dry and salty, often too salty to be palatable on its own. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cou…
About Thursday 14 January 1668/69
Terry Foreman • Link
"Is this the first experimental evidence that the kinetic energy is proportional to the square of the velocity?"
It isn't recognised that way: The principle in classical mechanics that E ∝ mv2 was first developed by Gottfried Leibniz and Johann Bernoulli, who described kinetic energy as the living force, vis viva. Willem 's Gravesande of the Netherlands provided experimental evidence of this relationship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin…
[I]n 1722 ['s Gravesande] published the results of a series of experiments in which brass balls were dropped from varying heights onto a soft clay surface. He found that a ball with twice the speed of another would leave an indentation four times as deep, from which he concluded that the correct expression for the "live force" of a body in motion (what is modernly called its "kinetic energy") is proportional to mv2.[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil…
About Robert Hooke
Terry Foreman • Link
London's Leonardo: Robert Hooke at the Dawn of Modern Science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n…
About Robert Hooke
Terry Foreman • Link
The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London By Lisa Jardine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0…
About Mrs Smith
Terry Foreman • Link
sempstress
a woman employed to sew
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/se…
About Monday 11 January 1668/69
Terry Foreman • Link
"W. Hewer, my guard"
L&M: Pepys was still being kept on a short leash because of his affair with Deb.
About Globes
Terry Foreman • Link
Portrayal of Globes in Vermeer's The Astronomer and The Geographer
Scholars have argued that the globes depicted in celebrated 17th-century painter Johannes Vermeer's 1668 The Astronomer and 1669 The Geographer were based on a pair of globes by Hondius.[4] Close inspection of these two globes reveals striking similarities to a pair of globes made in 1618 by Hondius. The globes were made as pendants, one depicting the earth while the other depicted the constellations. In Vermeer's The Astronomer the scholar consults a version of Hondius' celestial globe and in The Geographer Hondius' terrestrial globe can be seen placed atop the back cabinet. A version of Hondius' celestial globe can be found in the Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam and the terrestrial globe can be found in The Hispanic Society Museum & Library in New York City. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jod…
About Monday 29 April 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
Scube asks: "What does the reference to an "engine play" mean?"
See above https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Saturday 16 January 1663/64
Terry Foreman • Link
Inns and Taverns of Old London by Henry C. Shelley - Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6…
Thanks, Mary K !
About Saturday 27 April 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
DOUBT (v.) :
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… - to fear
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… - to wonder, be perplexed as to
-- L&M Large Glossary
About Friday 26 April 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
Timo posts: "I can’t wait to read Language Hat’s memoirs."
A preview?: http://languagehat.com/
About Friday 11 December 1663
Terry Foreman • Link
"Could someone please help me out with this Field subplot."
Click on the Field link in the entry text.
https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
About Tuesday 9 August 1664
Terry Foreman • Link
Kyle in San Diego says "How ironic, the French helping the Germans in war."
There is nothing "ironic" about having a common enemy. the Turks.
About Wednesday 6 January 1668/69
Terry Foreman • Link
Plough Monday is the traditional start of the English agricultural year. While local practices may vary, Plough Monday is generally the first Monday after Twelfth Day (Epiphany), 6 January.[1][2] References to Plough Monday date back to the late 15th century.[2] The day before Plough Monday is sometimes referred to as Plough Sunday. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plo…
About Tuesday 5 January 1668/69
Terry Foreman • Link
"home to supper to my wife, who is not very well of those"
Menstrual pains, but nevertheless, "and so sat talking till past one in the morning, and then to bed".
About Monday 22 April 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"" I did pay his coat for him. " I read "coat" as "cost" as he just travelled to and from Mercer's."
L&M read "coat" and the Larger Glossary explains the meaning of this figure of speech in this entry.
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About Wednesday 11 February 1662/63
Terry Foreman • Link
""At night my wife read Sir H. Vane’s tryall to me" I would think the government would ban such a book. Didn't you need a license to publish back in those days?" / "Looks like it's just a transcription of the trial, so nothing for the government to be ashamed of there."
The publication of anything could be banned by the censor or by law:
The Ordinance for the Regulating of Printing also known as the Licensing Order of 1643 instituted pre-publication censorship upon Parliamentary England. Milton's Areopagitica was written specifically against this Act.
-----Censorship during the Restoration
After the Restoration of the monarchy in the 1660s, even tighter controls were imposed on the press. A single individual was given the authority to publish an official newspaper along with the responsibility of serving as censor for all other publications. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lic…
About Sir Henry Vane (younger)
Terry Foreman • Link
The tryal of Sir Henry Vane, Kt. at the Kings Bench, Westminster, June the 2d. and 6th, 1662 together with what he intended to have spoken the day of his sentence (June 11) for arrest of judgment (had he not been interrupted and over-ruled by the court) and his bill of exceptions : with other occasional speeches, &c. : also his speech and prayer, &c. on the scaffold.
Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662, defendant., England and Wales. Court of King's Bench. [London: s.n.], 1662.
Early English Books Online [total text]
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo…