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281. Add MS 88942/1/118

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains notes on Assyrian cuneiform starting 'Obs. on some clay tablets in the B. Musm copied Oct 20, 22'. The notebook contains short notes on tablets from Nineveh. Back to front: starting 'A few notes concerning Niner, the mythic founder of Nineveh and some other prints of the c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1860-1866
Extent:
1 notebook (32 folios, 43 pages of text)

282. Add MS 88942/1/362

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Title:
Talbot: Loose notes (mathematics)
Scope & Content:
‘Wilson’s Theorem’ (31 October, 1869) to (8 January, 1870). Collected mathematical notes. 14 pages of text and one fragment. National Trust Accession: 26839. Mathematical notes, (1871). 11 pages of text. NTA: 26840. Mathematical notes, (undated). Six pages of text and diagrams. NTA: 26841. ‘M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1844-1871
Extent:
1 folder

283. Add MS 88942/1/189

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('H')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains mathematical notes on analyses (definite and indefinite integrals, 'On multiform functions', algebraic equations, and 'Arcs in the cubic parabola') and excerpts from books. A few late entries are from October 1835. Notebook started: 11 Oct 1830, Lacock. Designated 'H' on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1830-1835
Extent:
1 notebook (19 folios, 35 pages of text)

284. Add MS 88942/1/192

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('K')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains astronomical and mathematical notes. On the penultimate page of the notebook, Talbot records his observation of a total lunar eclipse at Paris, 26 December 1833. The mathematical notes deal with ellipses, hyperbolas, conic sections, parabolas, biquadratic equations, parabo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1833-1841
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 45 pages of text)

285. Add MS 88942/1/381

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Title:
Talbot: Loose notes (railways and iron ore mining)
Scope & Content:
A number of notes concerning the 'railway' (Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway). NTA: 23923 is dated (30 March, 1858) and NTA: 24472, [c 1845]. NTA: 24472 includes a newspaper cutting on a share issue for ‘South Midland, or Leicester, Northampton, Bedford and Huntingdon Railway.’ National Trus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1845-1858
Extent:
1 folder

286. Add MS 88942/1/19-20

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Title:
Talbot: Notebooks 'U' and 'U.2'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Persian, and Welsh
Date Range:
1837
Extent:
2 notebooks

287. 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.)

288. 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)

289. Add MS 88942/1/185

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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)

290. Add MS 88942/1/187

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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)