"to Brooke House, and there spoke with Colonel Thomson, I by order carrying them [the Commissioners of Accounts] our Contract-books, from the beginning to the end of the late war."
The Royal Society today at Arundel House "there was made an Expt. in prosecution of the notion That Springinesse is the cause of Rebounding."
Progress on the way to the publication of Hooke's Law.
Hooke's law is a law of physics that states that the force (F) needed to extend or compress a spring by some distance (x) scales linearly with respect to that distance...; The law is named after 17th-century British physicist Robert Hooke. He first stated the law in 1676 as a Latin anagram.[1][2] He published the solution of his anagram in 1678[3] as: ut tensio, sic vis ("as the extension, so the force" or "the extension is proportional to the force"). Hooke states in the 1678 work that he was aware of the law already in 1660.....
Hooke's law is an accurate approximation for most solid bodies, as long as the forces and deformations are small enough. For this reason, Hooke's law is extensively used in all branches of science and engineering, and is the foundation of many disciplines such as seismology, molecular mechanics and acoustics. It is also the fundamental principle behind the spring scale, the manometer, and the balance wheel of the mechanical clock. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoo…
Lectures de potentia restitutiva, or, Of spring explaining the power of springing bodies : to which are added some collections viz. a description of Dr. Pappins wind-fountain and force-pump, Mr. Young's observation concerning natural fountains, some other considerations concerning that subject, Captain Sturmy's remarks of a subterraneous cave and cistern, Mr. G.T. observations made on the Pike of Teneriff, 1674, some reflections and conjectures occasioned thereupon, a relation of a late eruption in the Isle of Palma / by Robert Hooke ... Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703., Papin, Denis, 1647-1714., Young, James., Sturmy, Samuel, 1633-1669., G. T. London: Printed for John Martyn ..., 1678. Early English Books Online [full text] https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo…
Yesterday: I with W. Hewer all the afternoon till night beginning to draw up our answer to Middleton. Today: I did the like all day long, only a little at dinner, and so to work again, and were at it till 2 in the morning, and so W. Hewer, who was with me all day, home to his lodging, and I to bed, after we had finished it.
"... though the Swedes’ Agent was there with all the vehemence he could to save the goods, ..."
Terry, any help from L&M on the anguished Swedish Agent's name? ------------ Alas, San Diego Sarah, neither on this entry nor in The Companion do L&M offer4 any help.
The Swedes Resident is Sir Johan Barckmann (Baron Leijonbergh) https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl… Would his eminence involve himself personally is this dispute, or send an agent?
Sufficient, for PRETEND, SDS. The L&M Large Glossary has RIGHT, CLAIM, And for PRETEND TO: to allege, to claim, this the 'pretended freight' at 1664/12/09/ may not primarily mean 'falsified'.
An amateur gentlewoman duelist of female romantic rivals is a creature of high color. We observe the combustible personality of Ephelia in her poems to female rivals and to various courtesans, for whom she had a special animus. Addressing her cousin, Barbara Villiers, the King's principal mistress in the early 1660s, for example, Ephelia writes boldly:
Imperious Fool! think not because you're Fair, That you so much above my Converse are! ........ Since then my Fame's as great as yours is, why Should you behold me with a Loathing Eye? If you at me cast a disdainful Eye, In biting Satyr I will Rage so high, Thunder shall pleasant be to what I'le write, And you shall Tremble at my very Sight; Warn'd by your Danger, none shall dare again, Provoke my Pen to write in such a strain. ("To A Proud Beauty," Female Poems...by Ephelia, 54-5; see also"Proud Beauty," Appendix B) http://www.ephelia.com/duel.htm
Sr. Kenelme Digbyes honour maintained by a most couragious combat which he fought with the Lord Mount le Ros, who by bale and slanderous words reviled our king : also the true relation how he went to the King of France who Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665. Printed at London: for T. B., 1641
I finally read A parliament of ladies with their lawes newly enacted.
Henry Neville explores secual liberation of ladies:
The chiefe Heads of the Ladies Lawes. FIrst, that instead of allowing men two wives, women, especially the stronger and greater vessell, should have two or three husbands.
That women might vex, perplex, and any way torment their husbands.
That women may twang it as well as their husbands.
That women may feast, banquet and gossip, when & where they please.
Likewise it is thought fit and convenient by us▪ that all rich and stale Batchelors doe forthwith marry poore Widdowes that have no meanes to live on, and so become Fathers the first day.
Item, That it is thought 〈◊〉, that rich widdowes shall marry Gen∣tlemens youngest sons that have no means to maintaine themselves. Item, It is concluded and fully agreed upon, that all women shall have their husbands Tenants at wil•; and that▪ they shall doe them Knights service, and have their homage paid before every Sun-rising, or at every weekes end, or at utmost betweene the quarters, not a day longer to be defer'd, unlesse it be in the Dogs dayes. Item, Let our husbands remember, though it be a tricke of them to forsake our beds in the Dogs dayes, yet let them take notice their is no dogs nights, and that it was at the first but a tricke of their owne in∣vention to save their labour and money too: which act wee disallow of for ever. Item, That no Yeoman or Husbandmen shall keep, or suffer to bee kept in their house, Barne, or Stable, any Cocke or Cockes▪ that will not tread his Hens: especially, when the Hens thrust their heads under the Cockes necke, &c. Item, That that man which promises a pretty Maid a good turn▪ and doth not perform it in 3. months, shall lose his what do you call them. Item, That if any Iesuite returne into our Land againe, being once banished, that he shall be gelt or libb'd, to avoid jealousies of our hus∣bands. FINIS.
"Little Miss Muffet" is an English nursery rhyme of uncertain origin, first recorded in 1805. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20605. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lit…
"the prologue most silly, and the play, though admirable, yet no pleasure almost in it, because just the very same design, and words, and sense, and plot, as every one of his plays have"
"I away, and walked to my Lord Sandwich’s, and walked with him to White Hall, and took a quarter of an hour’s walk in the garden with him, which I had not done for so much time with him since his coming into England; and talking of his own condition, and particularly of the world’s talk of his going to Tangier."
St Thomas' Hospital is a large NHS teaching hospital in Central London, England.
Originally located in Southwark, but based in Lambeth since 1871, the hospital has provided healthcare freely or under charitable auspices since the 12th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_…
"Up, and with my wife to church; which pleases me mightily, I being full of fear that she would never go to church again, after she had declared to me that she was a Roman Catholique."
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About Sunday 24 March 1666/67
Terry Foreman • Link
Samuel Pepys At St Olave’s
MARCH 25, 2020
https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020…
About Friday 18 December 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"to Brooke House, and there spoke with Colonel Thomson, I by order carrying them [the Commissioners of Accounts] our Contract-books, from the beginning to the end of the late war."
L&M: For the contract books, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Friday 18 December 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"All the morning at the office about Sir W. Warren’s accounts"
L&M: Cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Thursday 17 December 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
The Royal Society today at Arundel House "there was made an Expt. in prosecution of the notion That Springinesse is the cause of Rebounding."
Progress on the way to the publication of Hooke's Law.
Hooke's law is a law of physics that states that the force (F) needed to extend or compress a spring by some distance (x) scales linearly with respect to that distance...; The law is named after 17th-century British physicist Robert Hooke. He first stated the law in 1676 as a Latin anagram.[1][2] He published the solution of his anagram in 1678[3] as: ut tensio, sic vis ("as the extension, so the force" or "the extension is proportional to the force"). Hooke states in the 1678 work that he was aware of the law already in 1660.....
Hooke's law is an accurate approximation for most solid bodies, as long as the forces and deformations are small enough. For this reason, Hooke's law is extensively used in all branches of science and engineering, and is the foundation of many disciplines such as seismology, molecular mechanics and acoustics. It is also the fundamental principle behind the spring scale, the manometer, and the balance wheel of the mechanical clock.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoo…
Lectures de potentia restitutiva, or, Of spring explaining the power of springing bodies : to which are added some collections viz. a description of Dr. Pappins wind-fountain and force-pump, Mr. Young's observation concerning natural fountains, some other considerations concerning that subject, Captain Sturmy's remarks of a subterraneous cave and cistern, Mr. G.T. observations made on the Pike of Teneriff, 1674, some reflections and conjectures occasioned thereupon, a relation of a late eruption in the Isle of Palma / by Robert Hooke ...
Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703., Papin, Denis, 1647-1714., Young, James., Sturmy, Samuel, 1633-1669., G. T.
London: Printed for John Martyn ..., 1678.
Early English Books Online [full text]
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo…
About Wednesday 16 December 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
Yesterday:
I with W. Hewer all the afternoon till night beginning to draw up our answer to Middleton.
Today:
I did the like all day long, only a little at dinner, and so to work again, and were at it till 2 in the morning, and so W. Hewer, who was with me all day, home to his lodging, and I to bed, after we had finished it.
L&M: Pepys to Navy Board, 16 December: copy (in Gibson's hand) in NMM, PLA/19, n.p. For Middleton's allegations against Hewer, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Monday 21 January 1666/67
Terry Foreman • Link
Walked back from Deptford in the middle of a very busy day.
How many miles was that?
Then ca. 5.4 miles.
About Thursday 21 March 1666/67
Terry Foreman • Link
"... though the Swedes’ Agent was there with all the vehemence he could to save the goods, ..."
Terry, any help from L&M on the anguished Swedish Agent's name?
------------
Alas, San Diego Sarah, neither on this entry nor in The Companion do L&M offer4 any help.
The Swedes Resident is Sir Johan Barckmann (Baron Leijonbergh) https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl… Would his eminence involve himself personally is this dispute, or send an agent?
About Monday 18 March 1666/67
Terry Foreman • Link
The Two Pretenders
https://www.historic-uk.com/Histo…
About Monday 18 March 1666/67
Terry Foreman • Link
Sufficient, for PRETEND, SDS. The L&M Large Glossary has RIGHT, CLAIM, And for PRETEND TO: to allege, to claim, this the 'pretended freight' at 1664/12/09/ may not primarily mean 'falsified'.
About Sunday 17 March 1666/67
Terry Foreman • Link
Duel (Lady Mary Villiers's Duel)
An amateur gentlewoman duelist of female romantic rivals is a creature of high color. We observe the combustible personality of Ephelia in her poems to female rivals and to various courtesans, for whom she had a special animus. Addressing her cousin, Barbara Villiers, the King's principal mistress in the early 1660s, for example, Ephelia writes boldly:
Imperious Fool! think not because you're Fair,
That you so much above my Converse are!
........
Since then my Fame's as great as yours is, why
Should you behold me with a Loathing Eye?
If you at me cast a disdainful Eye,
In biting Satyr I will Rage so high,
Thunder shall pleasant be to what I'le write,
And you shall Tremble at my very Sight;
Warn'd by your Danger, none shall dare again,
Provoke my Pen to write in such a strain.
("To A Proud Beauty," Female Poems...by Ephelia, 54-5;
see also"Proud Beauty," Appendix B)
http://www.ephelia.com/duel.htm
About Sunday 17 March 1666/67
Terry Foreman • Link
Sr. Kenelme Digbyes honour maintained by a most couragious combat which he fought with the Lord Mount le Ros, who by bale and slanderous words reviled our king : also the true relation how he went to the King of France who
Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.
Printed at London: for T. B., 1641
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo…
About Sunday 17 March 1666/67
Terry Foreman • Link
I finally read A parliament of ladies with their lawes newly enacted.
Henry Neville explores secual liberation of ladies:
The chiefe Heads of the Ladies Lawes.
FIrst, that instead of allowing men two wives, women, especially the stronger and greater vessell, should have two or three husbands.
That women might vex, perplex, and any way torment their husbands.
That women may twang it as well as their husbands.
That women may feast, banquet and gossip, when & where they please.
Likewise it is thought fit and convenient by us▪ that all rich and stale Batchelors doe forthwith marry poore Widdowes that have no meanes to live on, and so become Fathers the first day.
Item, That it is thought 〈◊〉, that rich widdowes shall marry Gen∣tlemens youngest sons that have no means to maintaine themselves.
Item, It is concluded and fully agreed upon, that all women shall have their husbands Tenants at wil•; and that▪ they shall doe them Knights service, and have their homage paid before every Sun-rising, or at every weekes end, or at utmost betweene the quarters, not a day longer to be defer'd, unlesse it be in the Dogs dayes.
Item, Let our husbands remember, though it be a tricke of them to forsake our beds in the Dogs dayes, yet let them take notice their is no dogs nights, and that it was at the first but a tricke of their owne in∣vention to save their labour and money too: which act wee disallow of for ever.
Item, That no Yeoman or Husbandmen shall keep, or suffer to bee kept in their house, Barne, or Stable, any Cocke or Cockes▪ that will not tread his Hens: especially, when the Hens thrust their heads under the Cockes necke, &c.
Item, That that man which promises a pretty Maid a good turn▪ and doth not perform it in 3. months, shall lose his what do you call them.
Item, That if any Iesuite returne into our Land againe, being once banished, that he shall be gelt or libb'd, to avoid jealousies of our hus∣bands.
FINIS.
About Sunday 17 March 1666/67
Terry Foreman • Link
A parliament of ladies with their lawes newly enacted.
Neville, Henry, 1620-1694.
[London: s.n.], 1647.
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo…
About Saturday 16 March 1666/67
Terry Foreman • Link
Another complementing source:
Banda English-Dutch rivalry 1600 on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban…
About Thursday 21 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"Little Miss Muffet" is an English nursery rhyme of uncertain origin, first recorded in 1805. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20605.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lit…
About Thursday 7 March 1666/67
Terry Foreman • Link
Meanwhile, for background, read San Diego Sarah's post to the James Carkesse encyclopedia entry:
https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
About Tuesday 8 December 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"the prologue most silly, and the play, though admirable, yet no pleasure almost in it, because just the very same design, and words, and sense, and plot, as every one of his plays have"
L&M: Cf. Pepys's similar criticism of another play by Orrery: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Monday 7 December 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"I away, and walked to my Lord Sandwich’s, and walked with him to White Hall, and took a quarter of an hour’s walk in the garden with him, which I had not done for so much time with him since his coming into England; and talking of his own condition, and particularly of the world’s talk of his going to Tangier."
L&M: He never became Governor of Tangier. There had been a similar rumour in 1664: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Sunday 3 March 1666/67
Terry Foreman • Link
St Thomas' Hospital is a large NHS teaching hospital in Central London, England.
Originally located in Southwark, but based in Lambeth since 1871, the hospital has provided healthcare freely or under charitable auspices since the 12th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_…
About Sunday 6 December 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"Up, and with my wife to church; which pleases me mightily, I being full of fear that she would never go to church again, after she had declared to me that she was a Roman Catholique."
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…