Werckmeister's appendix on keyboard tuning from his 1698 thorough-bass treatise:
Werckmeister_Anmerckungen_1698
Tuning instructions and other remarks from this appendix have been translated by Paul Poletti:
http://polettipiano.com/Pages/werckengpaul.html
Overview and discussion of sources for the French Temperament Ordinaire:
http://harpsichords.pbwiki.com/Temperament_Ordinaire
English and Italian 18th-century irregular harpsichord tuning instructions:
http://harpsichords.pbwiki.com/18th_C_Irregulars
excerpts from Neidhardt's writings:
http://harpsichords.pbwiki.com/f/Neidhardt_1724_ascii.html
http://harpsichords.pbwiki.com/f/Neidhardt_1724_sec2.1.pdf
http://harpsichords.pbwiki.com/f/Neidhardt_1732_ascii.html
http://harpsichords.pbwiki.com/f/Neidhardt_1732_sec6-8.pdf
Intervallic analysis charts for the 21 temperaments in Neidhardt's 1732:
http://harpsichords.pbwiki.com/f/Neidhardt_1732_Charts.pdf
Tiberius Cavallo's article on keyboard tuning in the Philosophical Transactions of 1788:
http://harpsichords.pbwiki.com/Cavallo
Thomas Young's description:
http://harpsichords.pbwiki.com/f/Young.html
Kirnberger's description of his temperament known as "III":
http://harpsichords.pbwiki.com/f/K_III.html
... and the letter to Forkel which is the only source thereof:
http://harpsichords.pbwiki.com/f/Kirn_1871.html
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