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341. Add MS 4409

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Vol. III (ff. i + 392). includes: f. 18 Johann Heinrich Rahn, the elder; Swiss mathematician: Letter to: 1654: Lat. f. 20 Jacobus a Wassanaer: Mathematical problems: 17th cent.: Dutch. f. 21 Sir Samuel Morland, 1st Baronet; diplomatist and mathematician: Note by J. Pell on the cyclometrical pa...
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Western Manuscripts
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Dutch, English, and Latin
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17th century
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342. Add MS 4410

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. IV (ff. 226). Papers relating to the finding of Easter in connection with his pamphlet printed in 1664, Easter not mistimed, A Letter ... to a Friend (i.e. Theodore Haak), a copy of which is inserted at the beginning of the volume (ff. 1-8), etc. Thomas Streete, astronomer: No...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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1661-1664
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343. Add MS 4411

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. V (ff. 412). Papers relating to his Tabula numerorum quadratorum decies millium, 1672, tables of logarithms, and solutions of problems in which the works of Thomas Brancker, Franciscus à Schooten, Johann Heinrich Rahn and others are quoted. includes: f. 24 John Brereton, 4th ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English and Latin
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17th century
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344. Add MS 4412

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. VI (ff. 373). Tables of logarithms, and miscellaneous geometrical problems and calculations. includes: ff. 1-6 Henry Briggs, d 1631 mathematician: Extracts from his works: 17th cent.
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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17th century
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345. Add MS 4413

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. VII (ff. 429). Miscellaneous geometrical calculations, tables of logarithms, extracts from the works of Henry Gellibrand, Girolamo Cardano, Franciscus Vieta, Thomas Harriot and other mathematicians, and notes on the art of fortification. Fortification: Notes on, by J. Pell: 17...
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Western Manuscripts
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English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

346. Add MS 4414

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. VIII (ff. 255). The contents include:- (a) papers relating to An Introduction to Algebra translated ... by Thomas Brancker, M.A., much altered ... by D.P. (i.e. Dr. Pell), the letter 'To the Readers' being in Brancker's autograph. 1668. ff. 2-10b;-(b) Notes on John Kersey's 28 ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English and Latin
Date Range:
1650-1675
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1 item

347. Add MS 4415

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. IX (ff. i + 330). Various works and extracts, partly in Pell's autograph, among them being:-(a) 'De progressionis differentialis gradu secundo'; 1630. f. 9;-(b) 'Logistica generalis'; 1634. f. 15;-(c) 'Progymnasma analyticum'; 1637. f. 19;-(d) 'Paradigmata progressionis differe...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1630-1637
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1 item

348. Add MS 4416

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. X (ff. 305). Extracts from astronomical works, including 'The Everlasting Tables of Heavenly Motions ... composed by Philip Lansberg ... 1632, now turned out of Latine into English [by Pell?] ... 1634' (ff. 1-3); mathematical problems and solutions; and part of a printed copy o...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1652
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1 item

349. Add MS 4417

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. Xl (ff. 459). Problems, exercises and extracts from the works of Diophantus Alexandrinus, Franciscus Vieta, Alexander Anderson of Aberdeen, etc. Among them are:- (a) Definitions, etc. of astronomical anomalies. ff. 26-37;- (b) Canons of arithmetical progression. ff. 43b-46;- (c...
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Western Manuscripts
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English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
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350. Add MS 4418

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. XII (ff. i+359). Geometrical, arithmetical and chronological tables and problems. Among them are:- (a) Note on the Tabulae motuum coelestium perpetua of Philippus van Lansbergen. f. 4;- (b) Extract from Pell's Oratio Inauguralis Bredae, 1646. f. 101;- (c) Suggestions for re-nam...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1609-1640
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1 item