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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains translation notes on an Assyrian cuneiform text. Many blank pages. On the inside front cover, Talbot has noted the address 13 Great Stuart Street, Edinburgh (a property purchased by Talbot in 1864/65).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
after 1864
Extent:
1 notebook (32 folios, 19 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Notes on individual lines of an Assyrian cuneiform text, headed 'Notes extracted from the Copy left in Edinburgh'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, and Hebrew
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (12 folios, 7 pages of text)

173. Add MS 88942/1/181

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Belshazzar')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes headed 'Belshazzar'. At the back of the notebook (upside-down) are various notes beginning 'an Ode to Fire'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (32 folios, 7 pages of text)

174. Add MS 88942/1/182

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Title:
Printer's Proof: 'The Legend of Ishtar Descending to Hades' by H. F. Talbot
Scope & Content:
Printer’s proof, originally kept with Add MS 88942/1/175. The printed text is annotated in pencil throughout with corrections and revisions.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1873]
Extent:
5 folios, 9 pages of text

175. Add MS 88942/1/183

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('A')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains various astronomical and atmospheric observations (dated 1817 and 1819) and a few mathematical notes. Talbot studied planes revolving around an axis, found the equation for a curve traced by its intersection with a line (parabola), and also took extensive notes on the posit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1817-1844
Extent:
1 notebook (21 ff.)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebooks ('A'-'O')
Scope & Content:
A series of mathematical and scientific notebooks, lettered 'A'-'O', from which notebook 'G' is missing. Notebook 'L' (until very recently, also considered missing) is held separately in the British Library Loan Collection. Photography notebooks 'P' (1839) and 'Q' (1840) are held at the National...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1817-1871
Extent:
13 notebooks

177. Add MS 88942/1/184

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('B')
Scope & Content:
Talbot used this astronomical and mathematical notebook between 1822 and 1824 (the notebook includes the date Feb 11 1824 on a later page). The notebook continues notes on comets commenced in notebook 'A' (Add MS 88942/1/183), begining with notes on the first comet of 1822 discovered in Auriga M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1822-1824
Extent:
1 notebook (59 folios, 97 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('C')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains mainly astronomical and a few mathematical notes. The notebook contains substantial records of Talbot’s conversations with Dominique Arago at the Paris Observatory from March 1825. Talbot used the large telescope there to observe Jupiter, the Crab nebula and the Orion nebu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1825
Extent:
1 notebook (44 folios, 70 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('D')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains notes on mathematical and other scientific subjects. Regarding astronomy, the notebook contains many notes on recent comets. On 14 October 1825, Talbot observed the Pons comet (which reached perigee on 12 October) 'with the large telescope' (f. 7) . Talbot made notes on re...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1825-1871
Extent:
1 notebook (i + 99 ff.)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('E')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains notes on astronomy and mathematics. These include remarks on the obliquity of the ecliptic (i.e. the tilt of the Earth’s axis) dated 20 January 1828, notes on the 'Photometer', and notes on integrals, possibly in preparation for 'Researches in the Integral Calculus' (1836 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1827-1835
Extent:
1 notebook (21 folios, 38 pages of text)