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291. Add MS 88942/1/188

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('F')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains notes on astronomy (remarks on the solar spectrum and the observation of Saturn, 28 December 1828), mathematics (conic sections and cones, hyperbolas etc.) and various other notes. These include notes on a solution that leaves a prismatic film on glass, and notes on the 'C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-1830
Extent:
1 notebook (26 folios, 35 pages of text)

292. Add MS 88942/1/190

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('I')
Scope & Content:
Notes on various subjects. Regarding astronomy, the notebook contains a method for correcting the level of a telescope and remarks on the examination of the spectrum of the sun and of the moon. Mathematical notes deal with cubic parabloa, integrale, 'equilateral hyperbola', lemniscates and longi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1831-[1832]
Extent:
1 notebook (71 ff.)

293. Add MS 88942/1/193

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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)

294. Add MS 88942/1/194

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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)

295. Add MS 88942/1/116

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains a draft for a short publication for the Journal of Sacred Literature and Biblical Record (1856). There are also a few random notes on Hebrew.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1855?-1856?
Extent:
1 notebook (40 folios, 59 pages of text)

296. Add MS 88942/1/352

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Title:
Talbot: Loose notes (mathematics)
Scope & Content:
‘Poisson’ (undated). pp. 1-2. Two pages of text. National Trust Accession: 38801. Mathematical notes, (undated). NTA: 38802, 38803, 38804, 38805, 38806, 38807, 38808, 38809, 38810, 38811, 38812, 38813. ‘By known formula’ (undated). NTA: 38814. Mathematical notes, (undated). 38815, 38816, 3881...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
circa 1860
Extent:
1 folder

297. Add MS 88942/1/117

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook, which is not dated, includes notes entitled 'Further remarks on the myth of D[ionysius]' (f. 14), and notes on individual Assyrian texts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, and Hebrew
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 notebook (40 folios, 64 pages of text)

298. Add MS 88942/1/383

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Title:
Talbot: Loose notes (miscellaneous)
Scope & Content:
‘Copy.’ (undated but post-1877). ‘List of Works by the late W. H. Fox Talbot Esq – extracted from the British Museum Library Catalogues.’ Note by C. H. Talbot. NTA: 30467. ‘Rapid transmission of intelligence.’ (1854). Note on technology. NTA: 28881. Collected travel notes (undated). 12 pages o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1812-1946
Extent:
1 folder

299. Add MS 88942/1/32

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('G')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is part of a larger incomplete series which served as preparation for Talbot's English Etymologies and continues Add MS 88942/1/31. The etymological notebook contains mainly notes on English and Greek etymology but also on Greek mythology. Only the right hand pages are filled with ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1844
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 44 pages of text)

300. Add MS 88942/1/88

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('A')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains material relating to Talbot, 'Contributions Towards a Glossary of the Assyrian Language', and is the first in a series of 18 notebooks ('A'-'S') on this subject (Add MS 88942/1/88-105). Notebook started: 20 Feb 1871.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1871
Extent:
1 notebook (43 folios, 72 pages of text)