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121. Add MS 4407

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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...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

122. Add MS 4407-4431

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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.
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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:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
[1609-1678]
Extent:
25 items

123. Add MS 4419

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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...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

124. Add MS 4425-4429

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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.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1661-1663
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5 items

125. Add MS 4428

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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 ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1661-1663
Extent:
1 item

126. Add MS 4432

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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...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1663-1755
Extent:
1 item

127. Add MS 4432-4448

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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:-
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Royal Society: Papers rel. to: 1662-1765.: Engl., Lat., Fr. and Germ.: Partly printed.
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Western Manuscripts
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Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
1660-1765
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17 items

128. Add MS 4433

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ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS. (Vol. II) ff. 326. (1) 'An account of the Locusts in New England' by Paul Dudley; Roxbury, nr. Boston, 18 Dec. 1733. Followed by letters, etc., relating to the same, 1733-1737. ff. 4-27b. (2) 'Histories of the Epidemick Colds which happened in the Years 1729 and 1732/3 ....
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1731-1737
Extent:
1 item

129. Add MS 4434

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ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS. Vol. III (ff. 327). (1) An account by Dr. Thomas Stack of a tract entitled 'Johannis Matthaei Barthii ... de Culice Dissertatio'; 1737. ff. 1-2b. (2) Accounts by Mark Catesby, F.R.S., of René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur's 'Memoires pour servir à l'histoire des Insectes'...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1736-1738
Extent:
1 item

130. Add MS 4435

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ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS. Vol. IV (ff. 285). (1) 'Defectus solis observatus e specula Bononiensis scientiarum instituti ... referente Eustachio Manfredio', 15 Aug. 1738. Printed. Cf. Phil. Trans., xli, p. 94. ff. 1-2b. (2) Account of electrical experiments by Jean Théophile Desaguliers; 1738, 173...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1738-1739
Extent:
1 item