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- On globes generally, see Taylor Tudor Geography, 1485–1583 London 1954 Vincenzo Coronelli Libro dei Globi, edited by Helen Wallis (Amsterdam, 1969); idem, ‘Geographie is Better than Divinitie: Maps, Globes, and Geography in the Days of Samuel Pepys’, in Norman J. W. Thrower, The Compleat Platt-maker (Chicago, 1986), 1–43.
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- This point is central to the claims by Shapin and Schaffer in their discussion of the connections between the politics of science and the science of politics Shapin Steven A Social Hisotry of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-century England Chicago 1994 there are parallels, too, with the eighteenth-century emphasis on the ‘moral value’ of utility: Jan Golinski, Science as Public Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760–1820 (Cambridge, 1992).
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- et al. “Good Fences Make Good Neighbours”: Geography as Self-Definition in Early Modern England Isis 1991 82 639 661 Gentry (note 17); Ashworth and Sloan (note 45); Robin A. Butlin, ‘Regions in England and Wales c. 1600–1914’, in An Historical Geography of England and Wales, edited by R. A. Dodgshon and R. A. Butlin (London, 1991), 228–32; Frank V. Emery, ‘English Regional Studies from Aubrey to Defoe’, Geographical Journal, 124: 3 (1958), 315–25. On these issues in Italy, see Paula Findlen, Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (Berkeley, 1994).
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- Mendyk Early British Chorography Sixteenth Century Journal 1989 17 214 214 4 On other studies that have examined Sibbald in this sense, see F. V. Emery, ‘A “Geographical Description” of Scotland Prior to the Statistical Accounts’, Scottish Studies, 3 (1959), 1–16; idem, ‘The Geography of Robert Gordon, 1580–1661, and Sir Robert Sibbald, 1641–1722’, Scottish Geographical Magazine, 74, (1958), 3–12; S. Piggott, Ruins in a Landscape: Essays in Antiquarianism (Edinburgh, 1976), 135–9; Stan Mendyk, ‘Scottish Regional Historians and the Britannia Project’, Scottish Geographical Magazine, 101 (1985), 165–73; Allen D. C. Simpson, ‘Sir Robert Sibbald—Founder of the College’, in Proceedings of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Ter-centenary Congress, edited by R. Passmore (Edinburgh, 1982), 59–91; idem, ‘John Adair, Cartographer, and Sir Robert Sibbald's “Scottish Atlas”’, The Map Collector, 62 (1993), 32–7.
- Simpson Sir Robert Sibbald—Founder of the College Proceedings of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Ter-centenary Congress Passmore R. Edinburgh 1982 59 59 in Ian D. Whyte, Agriculture and Society in Seventeenth-century Scotland (Edinburgh, 1979), 179, 233–4, 246–50, 255–8.
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- This appears in a number of forms. Probably the best is The Memoirs of Sir Robert Sibbald (1641–1722) Hett Francis Paget London 1932 and I have used this where other sources are either silent or do not overtly contradict it. There is also Sibbald's ‘Memoirs of my Life’, Edinburgh University Library [hereafter EUL] Laing MS III. 535 (unpaginated) and a further copy in the National Library of Scotland [hereafter NLS] (Advocates' MS 33.5.1). This served as the basis for James Maidment's Remains … containing The Autobiography of Sir Robert Sibbald Knt., M.D. (Edinburgh, 1833) and of Hett's Memoirs. Both MSS are transcriptions of Sibbald's lost original: a conjectural, but probably accurate, history of the Sibbald biography and its eventual appearance and publication is provided by Hett (1933), 1–7.
- Hett . The Memoirs of Sir Robert Sibbald (1641–1722) 55 – 56 . London
- Mendyk . 1989 . “ Early British Chorography ” . In Sixteenth Century Journal Vol. 17 , 215 – 215 . 4
- Piggott . 1976 . Ruins in a Landscape: Essays in Antiquarianism 135 – 135 . Edinburgh
- Hett . 1932 . The Memoirs of Sir Robert Sibbald (1641–1722) 61 – 61 . London
- Hett . 1932 . The Memoirs of Sir Robert Sibbald (1641–1722) 65 – 65 . London
- Hett . 1932 . The Memoirs of Sir Robert Sibbald (1641–1722) 64 – 64 . London
- Hett The Memoirs of Sir Robert Sibbald (1641–1722) London 1932 74 75 Simpson (note 54), 62–4; Harold R. Fletcher and William H. Brown, The Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh 1670–1970 (Edinburgh, 1970), v, xiii-19; Sir Alexander Grant, The Story of the University of Edinburgh, 2 vols (London, 1884), i, 218–20.
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- NLS, MS 2257 f.3 – f.3 .
- Sibbald noted ‘I after this made not only those of the Romish Church my Enemies, but many Protestants too, who favoured the court, for yt my returne was when they were making a faction in ye parliament to repeall the penal statuts. After my returne, it pleased God the popish interest decayed dayly, and good men thought I by my returne had done it more damage then my joining had profited ym. I thanked God, who oppened my Eyes, and by my affliction gave me the grace to know myself, and the world, and amend my lyfe, so that [I recovered] my health, when in the opinion of all men, and according to my own, I was past recovery in a decay, occasioned by what is said befor, and my regrate for my rashnes’: Hett The Memoirs of Sir Robert Sibbald (1641–1722) London 1932 94 95
- EUL, Laing MS III. 535 12 – 12 .
- By far the best discussion of Sibbald's contextual significance in the virtuoso clubs and scientific societies of his day is Emerson Roger L. Sir Robert Sibbald, Kt, the Royal Society of Scotland and the Origins of the Scottish Enlightenment Annals of Science 1988 45 41 72 Appendix V there has a list of Scottish virtuoso clubs, c. 1680-c. 1710 (p. 72).
- Hoppen , K.T. 1970 . The Common Scientist in the Seventeenth Century: A Study of the Dublin Philosophical Society, 1683–1708 21 – 22 . London 106–8.
- NLS, Advocates' MS 33.5.16 Sibbald also comments on Scotland's demographic history there.
- NLS, Advocates' MS 33.5.16; Whyte Agriculture and Society in Seventeenth-century Scotland Edinburgh 1979 65 65 101, 116, 121, 206, 208, 209, 211, 213, 231, 240, 247, 250, 252, 259; Simpson (note 54) has a ‘list of works written or edited by Robert Sibbald and published in his lifetime’ (87–91).
- NLS, Advocates' MS 33.5.19 f.490 – f.490 . a full version of this Overture appears as Appendix I of Emerson (note 69), 67–9, transcribed from NLS, Advocates' MS 33.5.19. ff. 490–3. Appendices II and III of Emerson's paper (69–70) give the ‘Founding Fellows of the proposed Royal Society of Scotland as Sibbald listed them’ and ‘Conjectured Officers of the Royal Society of Scotland’.
- Cunningham , Andrew . 1978 . Sir Robert Sibbald and Medical Education, Edinburgh 1706 . Clio Medica , 13 : 145 – 146 .
- Cunningham . 1978 . Sir Robert Sibbald and Medical Education, Edinburgh 1706 . Clio Medica , 13 : 157 – 157 . Simpson (note 54), 75; EUL MS Dc. 8.35, f.49 (letter of Sibbald to Sloane, 26 February 1707); Edinburgh Courant, 14 February 1706.
- Sibbald . A Speech Dedicating Balfours Museum EUL, MS La III. 535, f.1.
- Hett . 1932 . The Memoirs of Sir Robert Sibbald (1641–1722) 74 – 74 . London
- NLS, Advocates' MSS 15.1.1., 15.1.2 (MS 15.1.1a is the maps, collected by Sibbald as part of the intended but never published ‘Atlas’).
- Sibbald , Robert . 1683 . An Account of the Scottish Atlas, or the Description of Scotland Ancient and Modern 1 – 2 . Edinburgh
- Sibbald . 1683 . An Account of the Scottish Atlas, or the Description of Scotland Ancient and Modern 3 – 3 . Edinburgh see also Emery (note 54), 7–8; Sir Robert Sibbald, Nuncius Scoto-Britannus, sive admonito de atlante Scotico seue descriptione Scotiae antiquae et modernae (Edinburgh, 1683), 1–2.
- NLS, Advocates' MS 33.1.16 ff.1 – 2 . 9, 9v et seq.; 33.5.15; 34.2.8.
- NLS, Advocates' MS 33.1.16, ff.1–8; as others have shown, this was a practice of late Renaissance Scottish historiography: Mason Roger A. Chivalry and citizenship: aspects of national identity in Renaissance Scotland People and Power in Scotland Mason Roger A. Macdougall Norman Edinburgh 1992 50 73
- Sibbald , Robert . 1710 . Vindiciae Scotiae Illustratae, sive prodromi naturalis historiae Scotiae, contra prodromomastiges 5 – 5 . Edinburgh see also Emery (note 54), 12; Simpson (note 54), 89–91; Athanasius Kircher's Mundus Subterraneus was published in Amsterdam in 1655 with enlarged editions in 1672 and 1678: J. Godwin, Athanasius Kircher: A Renaissance Man and the Quest for Lost Knowledge (London, 1979).
- NLS, Advocates' MSS 15.1.1, 15.1.1a, 15.1.2 and see MSS cited in note 81
- Sibbald , Robert . 1710 . The History, Ancient and Modern of the Sheriffdoms of Fife and Kinross: with descriptions … of the Firths of Forth and Tay … with an Account of the Natural products of the Land and Waters Edinburgh idem, The History, Ancient and Modern, of the Sheriffdoms of Linlithgow and Stirling … with an account of the natural products of the land and water (Edinburgh, 1710); idem, The Description of the Isles of Orkney and Zetland … Published by S.R.S. M.D. [from the MS of Robert Monteith, 1633] (Edinburgh, 1711).
- NLS, Crawford Deposit, Crawford MS, MB 277
- Hett . 1932 . The Memoirs of Sir Robert Sibbald (1641–1722) 74 – 75 . London
- 1837 . Remains of Sir Robert Sibbald, KNT, MD, containing his autobiography, memoirs of the Royal College of Physicians, Portions of his Literary Correspondence, and an Account of his MSS 36 – 36 . Edinburgh (letter of 11 November 1707 from Sibbald to Robert Wodrow).
- Nicols John British Topography, or an Historical Account of what has been done for illustrating the Topographical Antiquities of Britain and Ireland London 1780 II 554 555 10 vols see also William Nicolson, The Scottish Historical Library (London, 1702); Bibliotheca Sibbaldiana (Edinburgh, 1722).
- Nicolson . 1780 . British Topography, or an Historical Account of what has been done for illustrating the Topographical Antiquities of Britain and Ireland Vol. II , 19 – 20 . London 10 vols
- NLS, Advocates' MS 33.3.16 f.14v – f.14v .
- NLS, Advocates' MS 33.5.15 ff. 224 – 225 .
- NLS, Advocates' MS 33.3.16 f. 15 – f. 15 .
- NLS, Advocates' MS 34.2.8 ff. 197 – 197v .
- NLS, Advocates' MS 33.5.15 f. 14 – f. 14 .
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- Sharp , L.W. , ed. 1937 . Early Letters of Robert Wodrow 1698–1709 160 – 160 . Edinburgh Leag is a transliteration of the Scottish Gaelic (leug-eig-an meaning ‘1. a precious stone, a jewel; 2. a small stone or pebble in great estimation among some Highlanders, who fancy the water in which it is dipped possessed of healing virtues and charms’: Dictionarium Scoto-Celticum (Edinburgh, 1828), 114; also ‘leic, leug. A precious stone. In the Highlands a large crystal of a figure somewhat oval, which priests kept to work charms by water poured upon it, at this day, is given to cattle against diseases’: William Shaw, A Gaelic and English Dictionary (London, 1780), 57.
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- February 1693 . Royal Society [hereafter RS], EL.S2.6.f.1 February , Sibbald to Sloane, 7
- Calendar of Treasury Books London 1969 XXVIII (1714), part ii, 170 (4 March 1713–14): (a list of proposed customs' establishments in Scotland ‘examined and is signed by John Adair, the Queen's Geographer in Scotland’). In Rotterdam on 1 September 1687, Adair signed a commission to his wife, Jean Oliphant, to act as factor (agent) for him. He designated himself ‘Geographer to his Sacred Majesty’, SRO, Register of Deeds, DAL lxvii, 1279. ‘Adair seems to have used a variety of titles without any legitimate basis’: Peter G. Vasey, SRO, personal communication, 9 December 1994. Vasey is writing a biography of Adair; see also John Moore, ‘Scottish Cartography in the Later Stuart era, 1660–1714’, Scottish Tradition, 14 (1986–7), 28–44.
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- Hett . 1932 . The Memoirs of Sir Robert Sibbald (1641–1722) 65 – 65 . London
- Watson , J.A.S. and Amery , G.D. 1931 . Early Scottish Agricultural Writers (1697–1790) . Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland , 43 : 60 – 85 .
- Withers Charles W.J. Improvement and Enlightenment: Agriculture and Natural History in the Work of the Rev. Dr. John Walker (1731–1803) Philosophy and Science in the Scottish Enlightenment Jones Peter Edinburgh 1989 102 116 in idem, ‘William Cullen's agricultural lectures and writings and the development of agricultural science in eighteenth-century Scotland’, Agricultural History Review, 37: 2 (1989), 144–56; idem, ‘On Georgics and geology: James Hutton's “Elements of Agriculture” and agricultural science in eighteenth-century Scotland’, Agricultural History Review, 42: 1 (1994), 138–49.
- NLS, Advocates' MS 15.1.1 f. 16v – f. 16v .
- NLS, Advocates' MS 15.1.1 f. 16v – 17 .
- NLS, Advocates' MS 33.5.16 ff. 1 – ff. 1 . 23–72
- NLS, Advocates' MS 33.5.16 ff. 76 – 93v . Whyte (note 55), 206, 208, 209, 211.
- NLS, Advocates' MS 33.5.16 f. 80v – f. 80v .
- Sharp , L.W. , ed. 1937 . Early Letters of Robert Wodrow 1698–1709 27 – 27 . Edinburgh (letter of Sibbald to Wodrow, 31 August 1700).
- EUL, MS Dc.8.35 ff. 14 – 15 . (letter of Sibbald to Sloane, 26 June 1699).
- Royal Society, EL.S2.6 February 1693 f. 1 f. 1 (letter of 7 EL. S2.3, f.1 (letter of 7 February 1693), and EL. S2.3, f.1 (letter of 11 July 1693).
- EUL, MS Dc.8.35 ff. 47 – 48 .
- EUL, MS Dc.8.35 ff. 33 – ff. 33 .
- Emerson . 1988 . Sir Robert Sibbald, Kt, the Royal Society of Scotland and the Origins of the Scottish Enlightenment . Annals of Science , 45 : 62 – 62 .
- Livingstone . 1992 . The Geographical Tradition: Episodes in the History of a Contested Enterprise 28 – 31 . Oxford
- Charles W.J. , Withers . 1991 . The Rev. Dr. John Walker and the practice of natural history in late eighteenth-century Scotland . Archives of Natural History , 18 ( 2 ) : 201 – 220 .
- Pennant , Thomas . 1772 . A Tour in Scotland, 1769 Chester appendix; D. M. Henderson, James Robertson, An Eighteenth-century Discoverer of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1994).
- Emerson . 1978 . Sir Robert Sibbald and Medical Education, Edinburgh 1706 . Clio Medica , 13 : 67 – 67 .
- 1682: Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 535
- 1682: National Library of Scotland, MS s.302 b.1 (21); see also Bannatyne Club Miscellany 1855 3 371 375
- 1683: National Library of Scotland, MS Crawford Deposit MB.227 in the Crawford Bibliotheca Lindesiana. This manuscript broadside is very rare. There are only two copies known in Britain. I have here used that held in the National Library of Scotland under the terms of the Crawford Deposit. The other is in the British Museum.
- The material here enumerated dates from 1683 to c. 1700 as well as being based on some earlier extant material. This list is based upon Robert Sibbald's own ‘account of thes I pleased to be done for me’ National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 33.3.16 ff. 14v 16v cross-referenced against Adv. MS 34.2.8. in Sibbald's MSS and Nicolson (1702). The identifying number is for ease of reference and does not appear in the original MSS. H. Scott's Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae (London, 1915) has been used to identify parish ministers as authors (FES, volume, page number). NKA = no known author.
Annals of Science
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