Includes letters discussing Taylor’s research and writings, and those of others. Correspondents include fellow academics, museum and planning professionals, and professional and learned societies.
Material collected by Eila Campbell, historian of cartography, who considered writing a biography of Taylor. Includes letters from Taylor to Campbell, correspondence of Campbell and Derek Weber discussing the project, bibliographies of Taylor’s writings, biographical notes, a copy of a press cut...
Includes: catalogue for an exhibition of scientific instruments, Brussels, 1945; flyer for Town and Country Planning Summer School, Durham University, 1946; The Billingham Works of I.C.I.; sale catalogues; The Institute of Navigation Supplement at 30 June 1961; The Festival of Britain 1951, a gu...
Includes journal articles, notes, suggestions for the content of various sections of the atlas, correspondence, a draft plan, meeting notes, British Association committee papers, Association Française papers, and Royal Society papers. Taylor was chair of the committee established by the British A...
Writings by or about E. G. R. Taylor: titles Math-Mount
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Contains: ‘The Mathematical Practitioners of Hanoverian England’, 1966.‘The Mathematical Practitioners of Tudor and Stuart England’, 1955.‘The Mathematical Practitioners of the Late Stuart Period: With a Directory of Their Names’.‘Mathematics and the Navigator in the 13th Century’, Nov 1959.‘The...
Contains: ‘Samuel Purchas: an Appreciation’.‘Sir William Monson Consults the Stars’.‘A Sixteenth Century MS. Navigating Manual in the Society’s Library’.‘Some Notes on Early Ideas of the Form and Size of the Earth. (In basic English)’.‘The South Pointing Needle’, 1951, with comments by R. A. Ske...
Writings by others collected by E. G. R. Taylor: titles A-F
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Contains: ‘Ancient Astronomical Instruments’, by D. R. Dicks, 1954.‘Ancient Mathematics and Astronomy’, by O. Neuberger.‘Appendix on the Calculation of Meridional Parts’, by D. H. Sadler.[‘The Buckhurst Terrier’].‘Chinese Astronomical Jades’, by Henri Michel, 1949 and May 1950. ‘Christopher Saxt...