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33 Ibid., p.2.
34 See above, Chapter 5.
35 Goldgar and Montias have shown that paintings and tulip bulbs were both traded and bought by the same people. For the moral dilemma of disposable wealth in the United Provinces in the seventeenth century, see Schama, Embarrassment of Riches.
36 On Blathwayt’s career see S. Saunders Webb, ‘William Blathwayt, imperial fixer: From Popish Plot to Glorious Revolution’, William and Mary Quarterly 25 (1968), 3–21; ‘William Blathwayt, imperial fixer: muddling through to empire, 1689–1717’, William and Mary Quarterly 26 (1969), 373–415.
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1 Journaal van Constantijn Huygens, den Zoon, p.103.
2 Ibid., p.114.
3 See L. Jardine, Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution (London: Little, Brown, 1999), for a full bibliography.
4 Cit. Strien, British Travellers in Holland, p.264.
5 Ibid.
6 A coiled spring was a standard feature of a traditional clock, incorporated as a driver of the mechanism (wound up with a key to drive the clockwork as in any modern clockwork toy); Huygens’s original idea was to move it to act as a regulator of the balance.
7 Oldenburg, Correspondence 11, 186 (translation from the French taken from the version published by Oldenburg in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in November 1676).
8 BL Sloane MS 1039, f.129.
9 Moray and Bruce were related by marriage, I believe (there are too many Morays/Murrays and Bruces to be able to prove this). They were both probably prominent Speculative Freemasons.
10 On the English community at Maastricht during the Commonwealth years see J.P. Vander Motten, ‘Thomas Killigrew’s “lost years”, 1655–1660’, Neophilogus 82 (1998), 311–34.
11 For the text of the correspondence between Sir Robert Moray and Alexander Bruce, Earl of Kincardine, see now D. Stevenson, Letters of Sir Robert Moray to the Earl of Kincardine, 1657–73 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007). On Moray’s laboratory see e.g. ibid., p.82.
12 Ibid., p.190. See J.H. Leopold, ‘Christiaan Huygens, the Royal Society and Horology’, Antiquarian Horology 21 (1993), 37–42; 37.
13 Stevenson, Letters of Sir Robert Moray, p.197.
14 Parts of the escapement mechanism in clocks.
15 Stevenson, Letters of Sir Robert Moray, pp.198–9.
16 The first surviving communication between Moray and Christiaan Huygens is a letter dated 22 March 1661 (o.s.), shortly before Huygens arrived in London for the first time from Paris. Oeuvres Complètes 3, pp.260–1. However, it is clear that the two already know one another well.
17 Huygens, Oeuvres Complètes 2, p.209.
18 Lodewijk Huygens writes to his brother Christiaan in this period saying that the van Aerssens’ house is the most fashionable and most frequented house in The Hague.
19 Hume was chamberlain to Maria (Mary), Princess of Orange. See Oldenburg, Correspondence 2, p.477.
20 Stevenson, Letters of Sir Robert Moray, p.211.
21 Moray had played a prominent role in negotiations in Scotland during events preceding the arrest and execution of Charles I. Charles II recompensed handsomely those who had stood by his father right up to his end. See David Stevenson’s introduction to his edition of the Kincardine correspondence.
22 E.L. Edwardes, The Story of the Pendulum Clock (1977), p.41, interprets this as a reference to a type of ‘crutch’ (a fork-like device through which a clock pendulum runs) that Huygens had introduced.
23 A projection that engages on the teeth of a wheel, converting reciprocating into rotary motion (or vice-versa) in a clock.
24 Edwardes, Story, p.58, believed Moray wrote ‘Chopes’, which he identified as ‘chops’ or backcocks, parts of the suspension system for pendulums in clocks. But the first letter of the word is certainly ‘s’.
25 Stevenson, Letters of Sir Robert Moray, p.217.
26 On Culross, the Bruce family