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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4398
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Scope & Content:: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4400
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Scope & Content:: 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 ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4406
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Scope & Content:: MISCELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC TREATISES, Viz.:- (1) List of plants, with the title 'Le Jardin d'Arnald'. Latin. ff. 1-28. (2) Treatise on logarithms. French. Imperfect. ff. 29-39. (3) Treatise on chemistry. Latin. Imperfect. ff. 40-42. Paper; ff. 42. Small quarto. XVII cent. includes: ff. 29-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4407
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Scope & Content:: PELL PAPERS. Vol. I (ff. 198). The contents include:- (1) 'Christiani Hugenii, De Saturni luna observatio nova'; The Hague, 5 Mar. 1656. f. 1. (2) Treatise on geometry, perhaps by George Hastines; n.d. ff. 2-30. (3) Treatise on geometry, perhaps by - Chauveau whose name appears at the head...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4407-4431
Title:: PELL PAPERS (4th Series) Mathematical collections of John Pell, consisting of treatises, geometrical and other problems and their solutions, tables and calculations of logarithms, etc., chiefly autograph. For other collections made by Pell see Add. MSS. 4278-4280, 4394-4396 and 4397-4404. The names of the writers of a few original letters are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. Twenty-four volumes. Folio.
Scope & Content:: 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.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: [1609-1678]
Extent:: 25 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4419
Title:
Scope & Content:: PELL PAPERS. Vol. XIII (ff. i + 341). Miscellaneous geometrical and trigonometrical problems, calculations, and extracts from the works of William Oughtred, Henry Briggs, Diophantus Alexandrinus, etc. Diophantus, of Alexandria; Greek mathematician: Arithmetical problems by: 17th cent. includes...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4425-4429
Title:: PELL PAPERS. Solutions of various trigonometrical, optical, and philosophical problems, with tables of logarithms, etc., and (in 4426) some tradesrnen's and household bills (1661-1663) and family notes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 1661-1663
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4428
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Scope & Content:: Vol. XXII (ff. 339). includes: f. 24 Rudolph van Ommeren, Dutch Commissioner to the Evangelical Cantons of Switzerland: Letter to J. Pell: circ. 1656.: Fr. f. 24 John Pell, d 1685 DD; mathematician and diplomatist: Letter to, from R. van Ommeren: circ. 1656.: Fr. ff. 44-45b Calendars: 'How to ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 1661-1663
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4432
Title:
Scope & Content:: ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS. Vol. I. (ff. 392). (1) 'Dr [William] Croon's account of the weight of a Carp'; 1663. f. 1. (2) 'Remarks on the Journal of [Thomas] Batts and [Robert] Fallam, in their Discovery of the Western Parts of Virginia in 1671', by John Mitchell, M.D., F.R.S.; aft. 1755. The jour...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1663-1755
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4432-4448
Title:: ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS Collections relating to the Royal Society (incorporated in 1662) made by Thomas Birch while Secretary of the Society (1752-1765), consisting of letters, articles or communications sent for consideration, many of which were subsequently printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, draft minutes, etc. 1660-1765. Seventeen volumes. Paper. Folio. The chief contents are as follows:-
Scope & Content:: Royal Society: Papers rel. to: 1662-1765.: Engl., Lat., Fr. and Germ.: Partly printed.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1660-1765
Extent:: 17 items

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