Jonas Moore 1617-1679
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Sir Jonas MOORE 1617-79
Biographical Note
Surveyor, mathematician.
Books
Intended to bequeath his books to the Royal Society, but died intestate and his library was auctioned in London, 3.11.1684 (1560 lots).
Sources
- Alston, R. C. Inventory of sale catalogues 1676-1800. St Philip, 2010.
- Mandelbrote, G. The organisation of book auctions in late seventeenth-century London, in R. Myers (ed), Under the hammer, London, 2001, 15-36, 20.
- Willmoth, Frances. "Moore, Sir Jonas (1617–1679), mathematician and patron of astronomy." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.