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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4397
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Scope & Content:: 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

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 4401
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Scope & Content:: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4403
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Scope & Content:: 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

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 4408
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Scope & Content:: Vol. II, (ff. i + 390) includes: f. 55 Jan Janszoon Stampioen, Dutch mathematician and inventor: Notes on his 'Nieuwe Tafelen der polus-hooghte' (1618),: 17th cent. f. 88 John Pell, d 1685 DD; mathematician and diplomatist: Correspondence with Sir C. Lloyd: 1651, n.d. f. 88 Sir Charles Lloyd: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4409
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Scope & Content:: Vol. III (ff. i + 392). includes: f. 18 Johann Heinrich Rahn, the elder; Swiss mathematician: Letter to: 1654: Lat. f. 20 Jacobus a Wassanaer: Mathematical problems: 17th cent.: Dutch. f. 21 Sir Samuel Morland, 1st Baronet; diplomatist and mathematician: Note by J. Pell on the cyclometrical pa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4411
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Scope & Content:: PELL PAPERS. Vol. V (ff. 412). Papers relating to his Tabula numerorum quadratorum decies millium, 1672, tables of logarithms, and solutions of problems in which the works of Thomas Brancker, Franciscus à Schooten, Johann Heinrich Rahn and others are quoted. includes: f. 24 John Brereton, 4th ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

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