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1. Add MS 4397-4404

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PELL PAPERS (3rd Series) Mathematical collections of John Pell, consisting of treatises, calculations, and extracts from printed works, with other miscellaneous matter, chiefly in Pell's autograph. For the 1st, 2nd and 4th Series of these collections see Add. MSS. 4278-4280, 4394-4396, 4407-4431. A few letters are interspersed; the names of the writers of these are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. Eight volumes. 17th cent.
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John Pell, d 1685 DD; mathematician and diplomatist: Mathematical and scientific collections: 1617-1681, n.d.: Mainly autogr. Mathematics: Mathematical collections of J. Pell: 17th cent.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
8 items

2. Add MS 4402

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. VI (ff. 16). Viz.:- (a) Arithmetical treatise on fractions. ff. 1-9;- (b) Trigonometrical treatise on 'The Doctrine of Triangles'. ff. 10b-16.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 4404

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. VIII (ff. 26). Viz.:- (a) treatise on trigonometry. Latin. ff. 1-14;- (b) tables of logarithms, by John Pell. ff. 16-20b. Added (f. 25) is a list of dues to the king in 1680, 1681, for tenths at Laindon and Fobbing, co. Essex, of which Pell was Vicar and Rector. includes: f. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1680-1681
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 4399

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. III (ff. 93). Miscellaneous calculations, and extracts from works by Pell, John Wyberd, Henry Briggs, and Christiaan Huygens. includes: ff. 10, 21 John Wyberd, mathematician: Notes by J. Pell on his 'Tactometria' (1650),: 17th cent. f. 90 Christiaan Huygens, d 1695 Heer van Z...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 4397

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. I (ff. 65). Included are:- (1) 'Tabulae Directoriae ad praxin Mathematicam nonnichil conferentes. Cum earundem constructione et usu' by John Pell; 16 July 1628. ff. 1-5b. (2) 'Eclipticus Prognosta, or The Eclips Prognosticator', by the same; 10 Apr. 1634. ff. 12-20. (3) '...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1628-1658
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 4403

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. VII (ff. 169). Included are:- (1) Logarithmo-Technia, by Nicolaus Mercator, 1668, to which is joined Exercitatio Geometrica de Maximis et Minimis by Michele Angelo Ricci, 1668. Printed, with a few MS. additions and notes by Pell. ff. 1-40. (2) Treatises in shorthand (Ridpat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 4400

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. IV (ff. 92). Included are:- (1) 'Controversia De Verâ Circuli mensurâ anno MDCXLIV exorta inter Christianum Severini Longomontanum ... et Joannem Pellium'. Followed (f. 4) by four leaves from a work on the same subject printed at Copenhagen, 1644. ff. 1-7b. (2) Propositions ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 4401

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. V (ff. 123). Included are:- (a) 'The Description and use of the Quadrant, Written for the use of a freind, by Jo[hn] P[ell] ... 1628'. ff. 3-14b;- (b) Treatise on 'Canonicall numbers'. ff. 15-20;- (c) 'Resolutions of Problems', 1666; containing many allusions to Franciscus à Sc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1431-1666
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 4398

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. II (ff. 196). Included are:- (1) An Introduction to Algebra, translated ... by Thomas Brancker, M.A., much altered and augmented by D.P. (i.e. Dr. Pell); 1668. Printed with MS. corrections in Pell's autograph. ff. 1-32. (2) Letters to Dr. Pell from:-(a) Henry Briggs; Merton ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1628-1676
Extent:
1 item