Talk:John Evelyn

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Evelyn? A leading churchman?! I think this is a point all of his biographers have somehow missed! Oddly, Evelyn's diary is silent on it too!

Overshadowing Pepys? That is laughable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.104.113.175 (talk) 14:01, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

source links broken

sources - diary and correspondence at Tufts Digital Library not working. TDL does not have Evelyn's diaries. Anitam10 (talk) 16:01, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Has been fixed. These now link to Archive.org Robkam (talk) 11:23, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Royal Society

I cannot find anything in the article about Evelyn's involvement in the Royal Society, of which he was one of the original fellows, said to be probably responsible for giving it its name. He was a longstanding member of the council, and in addition to what he contributed as a "virtuoso", helped to acquire some of its assets. --Martin Wyatt (talk) 17:04, 24 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Howard family

I have adjusted the links, which were clearly wrong. He certainly knew the 6th Duke well, about which more might be said. Johnbod (talk) 11:10, 5 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

New photos on Commons from the Royal Society Library

As part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Royal Society a special photo session in the Royal Society Library in London has resulted in Commons:Category:Royal Society Library, with over 50 photos of their treasures, mostly 17th century manuscripts, including several of the 1st edn of Sylva, one of the early minute books, Boyle's notebooks etc, the manuscript fair copy of Newton's Principia etc. Please add these as appropriate. Thanks! Wiki at Royal Society John (talk) 22:05, 25 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Done at Sylva, External links --Rob Kam (talk) 05:36, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Odd Vladimir Putin Connection

I've just read a news story concerning the attempted theft, presumably for scrap metal, of a statue of Tsar Peter the Great in Deptford, which was gifted to the borough in 2001 by Vladimir Putin and visited by him in 2003. It was created by one Mihail Chemiakin, a favourite artist of Putin's, which might explain why he got the commission despite not being terribly good; the Tsar is very odd-looking, with a comically tiny head. I mention it here because standing to the right of Peter is a weird little dwarf, which the thieves set their sights on, presumably because it was a lot more portable than the towering Tsar, and tried unsuccessfully to cut loose with an angle grinder. This, apparently, is supposed to be John Evelyn, though as likenesses go it's not the most accurate. Presumably the artist was instructed by Putin to portray Evelyn as a hideous midget to posthumously punish him for saying all those nasty things about a man Putin considers to be a hero, mainly because he was really good at invading countries next to Russia and making it bigger and mightier (unlike some people I could mention). Anyway, there you go. It's not a good statue of John Evelyn, or indeed a good statue, period, but it is a statue of him erected quite recently, so I thought you might like to mention it here. Better hurry though. The way things are going, it won't be around for much longer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.143.52.255 (talk) 08:37, 23 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tsar Peter the Great

Encounter or Interaction with the Russian Tsar Peter The Great ... When he destroyed Evelyn's gardens. 2600:4040:2ACE:5000:E191:6388:DBF6:AA1F (talk) 15:10, 19 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A plea for reforestation

Wouldn't this make him one of the first conservationists in modern history? Viriditas (talk) 08:16, 27 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Elysium Britannicum

He spent much of his later life working on the enormous Elysium Britannicum, covering all aspects of gardening.

I don't think that quite cuts it. Nobody seems to know what the Elysium Britannicum is supposed to be, and apparently most of the original work was lost. I just looked at one of the volumes to find out what Evelyn said about pineapples, and it's wild, wacky stuff. First he starts talking about how great they taste, then he starts going off on a tangent on how the world was originally a garden of Eden; this is followed by extensive, detailed plans for machines in the garden that do all sorts of things. This is one of the strangest works I've ever seen. Viriditas (talk) 00:27, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]