D J Bryden
Biographic Data
| ID | 1468304 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D J Bryden |
| GIVEN NAMES | D J |
| FAMILY NAME | Bryden |
| SIGNATURE | BRYDEN D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Assistant Keeper, Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Magnetic Geometer of Henry Hall Sherwood, and the Scientific Ineptitude of the US Government, 1837–1838
Alternative medical practitioner Henry Hall Sherwood designed, made and sold electromagnetic drugs and medical electrical machines. The American medical establishment labelled him a ‘quack’. His theory of the universal role of magnetism underpinned the design of the ‘magnetic geometer’, claimed as able to ascertain longitude at sea. Sherwood may have been misled by a collaborator, the journalist Richard Adams Locke, perpetuator of the 1835 ‘Great…
Made in England—but not in London
Restricted accessMoreSectionsView Full TextView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Cite this article Bryden D.J. 2009Made in England—but not in London!Notes Rec. R. Soc.63207–208http://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2009.0002SectionRestricted accessBook reviewsMade in England—but not in London! D.J. Bryden D.J. Bryden [email protected] Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search …
A Fortification Sector to the 1673 Design of Sir Jonas Moore
The paper discusses an unsigned London made sector, a mathematical instrument which provides instrumental solutions to trigonometrical problems. The instrument is identified as being made to the design published by Sir Jonas Moore in 1673 with scales specifically intended for use in drawing ground plans for fortifications. It encapsulates the codified design rules of various seventeenth century engineers. One of the fortification scales which ado…
John Gedde’s bee-house and the Royal Society
In 1672 Sir Robert Moray presented to the Repository of the Royal Society ‘a bee-hive of a peculiar contrivance, sent out of Scotland’. This paper considers how this design, claimed by John Gedde of Falkland in the County of Fife, was marketed in England with the purported support of the Royal Society
Public and Private Science
Magnetic inclinatory needles
In 1674 Charles II appointed a Commission to examine the hitherto closely guarded and long standing claim of Henry Bond, to have discovered a means of calculating longitude at sea from observations of magnetic variation and inclination. With the single exception of the King’s Master of Mechanicks, the inventive virtuoso Sir Samuel Morland, the six members of the Commission were all Fellows of the Royal Society. It was not, however, a Royal Societ…
Archimedes as an Advertising Symbol
The Cover Design ARCHIMEDES AS AN ADVERTISING SYMBOL D.J. BRYDEN AND D.L. SIMMS The numbering of houses in the streets of London commenced during the latter half of the 18th century. Before that, traders relied on signs to identify their whereabouts. In the 1670s John Yarwell, sometime Master of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers, adopted “Archimedes” as his business sign at premises in St. Paul’s Churchyard and from the 1690s in Ludgate …
The Iron Bridge, Symbol of the Industrial Revolution
Scottish Scientific Instrument-Makers, 1600-1900
Sir Samuel Morland's account of the balance barometer, 1678
Recent studies have confirmed the traditional attribution of the invention of the balance barometer to Sir Samuel Morland. Two contemporary references to a 1678 printed pamphlet describing the invention are known but no copy has been located. This paper prints a seventeenth century manuscript copy of Morland's description of his balance barometer. The commentary outlines Robert Hooke's role in the invention. Morland's analysis of the mode of acti…
A Robinson Balance by Adie & Son of Edinburgh
An Additional Factor in the History of the Centigrade Thermometer
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Jamaican observatories of Colin Campbell, F. R. S. and Alexander Macfarlane, F. R. S
IN the spring of 1731 Colin Campbell, F. R. S., sailed from Britain to his home at Black-River, Jamaica, where his father was a colonial merchant and landowner. He took with him a substantial collection of astronomical instruments, intending to found an observatory on the island. About ten years later he sold the instruments to a fellow Scot, Alexander Macfarlane, F. R. S., who set them up in a specially built house and observatory in Kingston, J…
Note on a further portrait of James Short, F. R. S
The portrait of James Short (1710-1768, F.R.S. 1737) in the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, was illustrated and discussed in a recent article in this journal (1). As a result of Turner’s paper another portrait of James Short has been found; these two likenesses together with the chalk and pencil drawing by the Earl of Buchan were shown side by side at the bicentenary exhibition ‘James Short and his Telescopes’ held at the Royal Scottish…
Archimedes as an Advertising Symbol
The Cover Design ARCHIMEDES AS AN ADVERTISING SYMBOL D.J. BRYDEN AND D.L. SIMMS The numbering of houses in the streets of London commenced during the latter half of the 18th century. Before that, traders relied on signs to identify their whereabouts. In the 1670s John Yarwell, sometime Master of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers, adopted “Archimedes” as his business sign at premises in St. Paul’s Churchyard and from the 1690s in Ludgate …
Sir Samuel Morland's account of the balance barometer, 1678
Recent studies have confirmed the traditional attribution of the invention of the balance barometer to Sir Samuel Morland. Two contemporary references to a 1678 printed pamphlet describing the invention are known but no copy has been located. This paper prints a seventeenth century manuscript copy of Morland's description of his balance barometer. The commentary outlines Robert Hooke's role in the invention. Morland's analysis of the mode of acti…
Note on a further portrait of James Short, F. R. S
The portrait of James Short (1710-1768, F.R.S. 1737) in the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, was illustrated and discussed in a recent article in this journal (1). As a result of Turner’s paper another portrait of James Short has been found; these two likenesses together with the chalk and pencil drawing by the Earl of Buchan were shown side by side at the bicentenary exhibition ‘James Short and his Telescopes’ held at the Royal Scottish…
The Jamaican observatories of Colin Campbell, F. R. S. and Alexander Macfarlane, F. R. S
IN the spring of 1731 Colin Campbell, F. R. S., sailed from Britain to his home at Black-River, Jamaica, where his father was a colonial merchant and landowner. He took with him a substantial collection of astronomical instruments, intending to found an observatory on the island. About ten years later he sold the instruments to a fellow Scot, Alexander Macfarlane, F. R. S., who set them up in a specially built house and observatory in Kingston, J…
An Additional Factor in the History of the Centigrade Thermometer
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Robinson Balance by Adie & Son of Edinburgh
Sir Samuel Morland's account of the balance barometer, 1678
Recent studies have confirmed the traditional attribution of the invention of the balance barometer to Sir Samuel Morland. Two contemporary references to a 1678 printed pamphlet describing the invention are known but no copy has been located. This paper prints a seventeenth century manuscript copy of Morland's description of his balance barometer. The commentary outlines Robert Hooke's role in the invention. Morland's analysis of the mode of acti…
Scottish Scientific Instrument-Makers, 1600-1900
The Iron Bridge, Symbol of the Industrial Revolution
Magnetic inclinatory needles
In 1674 Charles II appointed a Commission to examine the hitherto closely guarded and long standing claim of Henry Bond, to have discovered a means of calculating longitude at sea from observations of magnetic variation and inclination. With the single exception of the King’s Master of Mechanicks, the inventive virtuoso Sir Samuel Morland, the six members of the Commission were all Fellows of the Royal Society. It was not, however, a Royal Societ…
Archimedes as an Advertising Symbol
The Cover Design ARCHIMEDES AS AN ADVERTISING SYMBOL D.J. BRYDEN AND D.L. SIMMS The numbering of houses in the streets of London commenced during the latter half of the 18th century. Before that, traders relied on signs to identify their whereabouts. In the 1670s John Yarwell, sometime Master of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers, adopted “Archimedes” as his business sign at premises in St. Paul’s Churchyard and from the 1690s in Ludgate …
John Gedde’s bee-house and the Royal Society
In 1672 Sir Robert Moray presented to the Repository of the Royal Society ‘a bee-hive of a peculiar contrivance, sent out of Scotland’. This paper considers how this design, claimed by John Gedde of Falkland in the County of Fife, was marketed in England with the purported support of the Royal Society
Public and Private Science
A Fortification Sector to the 1673 Design of Sir Jonas Moore
The paper discusses an unsigned London made sector, a mathematical instrument which provides instrumental solutions to trigonometrical problems. The instrument is identified as being made to the design published by Sir Jonas Moore in 1673 with scales specifically intended for use in drawing ground plans for fortifications. It encapsulates the codified design rules of various seventeenth century engineers. One of the fortification scales which ado…
Made in England—but not in London
Restricted accessMoreSectionsView Full TextView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Cite this article Bryden D.J. 2009Made in England—but not in London!Notes Rec. R. Soc.63207–208http://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2009.0002SectionRestricted accessBook reviewsMade in England—but not in London! D.J. Bryden D.J. Bryden [email protected] Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search …
The Magnetic Geometer of Henry Hall Sherwood, and the Scientific Ineptitude of the US Government, 1837–1838
Alternative medical practitioner Henry Hall Sherwood designed, made and sold electromagnetic drugs and medical electrical machines. The American medical establishment labelled him a ‘quack’. His theory of the universal role of magnetism underpinned the design of the ‘magnetic geometer’, claimed as able to ascertain longitude at sea. Sherwood may have been misled by a collaborator, the journalist Richard Adams Locke, perpetuator of the 1835 ‘Great…
History (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (5 works) · History and Developments in Astronomy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (3 works)