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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/193
Title:: Talbot: Notebook ('M')
Scope & Content:: This manifold notebook reflects Talbot's broad interests and contains mainly notes on chemistry, with entries on optics, astronomy and mathematics. Talbot solves equations, conic sections, gives references to secondary literature and copies extracts from Euclid's Elements. The notebook includes ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1834-1835
Extent:: 1 notebook (178 numbered pages)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/194
Title:: Talbot: Notebook ('N')
Scope & Content:: The notebook begins by recording further observations of Comet Halley during October and November 1835 (pp. 2-3). The remainder of the notebook comprises work on various mathematical topics, including: conic sections, integrals, the parabola, the partition of numbers, trinominal curves, Wilson's...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1835-1836
Extent:: 1 notebook (180 numbered pages)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/195
Title:: Talbot: Notebook ('O')
Scope & Content:: The notebook begins with remarks on the structure of the pollen of the Stone Pine, and later (p. 22) on the pollen of the Tulip, interspersed with various observations on crystallization. The notebook includes fleeting astronomical remarks. For example, on the determination of the mass of doubl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1836-1838
Extent:: 1 notebook (174 numbered pages)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/196
Title:: Talbot: Notebook ('aa')
Scope & Content:: This mathematical exercise notebook contains algebraic equations of third and fifth degree, some analyses (integrals, differentials and trigonometric functions) as well as many auxiliary calculations. The beginnings and the end of calculations are not clearly indicated. It might continue with Ad...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1836
Extent:: 1 notebook (16 folios, 32 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/197
Title:: Talbot: Notebook ('cc')
Scope & Content:: This mathematical notebook seems to be related to Add MS 88942/1/196 and to be continued by Add MS 88942/1/198. It contains auxiliary calculations, algebraic equations (third degree) and some analyses (integrals and differentials, trigonometric functions). The book seems to have served as a roug...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1836
Extent:: 1 notebook (18 folios, 29 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/198
Title:: Talbot: Notebook ('ee')
Scope & Content:: This mathematical exercise book probably continues Add MS 88942/1/197. It contains mainly auxiliary calculations, algebraic equations, and some analyses (integrals and differentials, trigonometric functions, equations of third and fifth degree). There is no clear order in the beginnings and the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1837?
Extent:: 1 notebook (88 folios, 176 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/199
Title:: Talbot: Notebook ('kkk')
Scope & Content:: The notebook is possibly related to Add MS 88942/1/198. It contains mainly algebraic equations of third degree. The notes are possibly related to 'Essay towards a General Solution of Numerical Equations of all Degrees having Integer Roots' (1875). Many pages at the back of the notebook have been...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1860s]
Extent:: 1 notebook (15 folios, 19 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/200
Title:: Talbot: Notebook (John Brickdale, 'The Elements of Euclid')
Scope & Content:: The inside front cover of this notebook is inscribed ‘John Brickdale 1778'. It contains a handwritten copy of ‘The Elements of Euclid’ that was presumably used by Talbot in the course of his tuition.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1778
Extent:: 1 notebook (59 ff. + 17*, 25*, 26*)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/201
Title:: Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:: This schoolbook contains drawings (ink, pencil and watercolour) of basic geometric figures and astronomical diagrams with annotations, possibly drawn with the help of a tutor. The geometrical drawings deal with surfaces and solids, regular bodies, circles and trigonometry. Amonst them are depict...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1809
Extent:: 1 notebook (104 folios, 24 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/202
Title:: Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:: This notebook contains miscellaneous calculations of distance and angle with reference to trees and other garden features. One page includes the dates 'November 1827' and 'Nov 1828'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1827-1828
Extent:: 1 notebook (22 folios, 11 pages of text)

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