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 ...
PELL PAPERS. Vol. VII (ff. 429). Miscellaneous geometrical calculations, tables of logarithms, extracts from the works of Henry Gellibrand, Girolamo Cardano, Franciscus Vieta, Thomas Harriot and other mathematicians, and notes on the art of fortification. Fortification: Notes on, by J. Pell: 17...
PELL PAPERS. Vol. Xl (ff. 459). Problems, exercises and extracts from the works of Diophantus Alexandrinus, Franciscus Vieta, Alexander Anderson of Aberdeen, etc. Among them are:- (a) Definitions, etc. of astronomical anomalies. ff. 26-37;- (b) Canons of arithmetical progression. ff. 43b-46;- (c...
PELL PAPERS. Vol. XII (ff. i+359). Geometrical, arithmetical and chronological tables and problems. Among them are:- (a) Note on the Tabulae motuum coelestium perpetua of Philippus van Lansbergen. f. 4;- (b) Extract from Pell's Oratio Inauguralis Bredae, 1646. f. 101;- (c) Suggestions for re-nam...
PELL PAPERS. Vol. XIV (ff. i + 219). Trigonometrical and algebraical problems and calculations; Pell's 'Logistica, or the Art of reckoning', 1635 (f. 47); and extracts from the works of Isaac Barrow, W. Oughtred, Franciscus Vieta, and especially from the Trigonometria Britannica of Henry Briggs ...
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...
PELL PAPERS. Vol. IX (ff. i + 330). Various works and extracts, partly in Pell's autograph, among them being:-(a) 'De progressionis differentialis gradu secundo'; 1630. f. 9;-(b) 'Logistica generalis'; 1634. f. 15;-(c) 'Progymnasma analyticum'; 1637. f. 19;-(d) 'Paradigmata progressionis differe...
PELL PAPERS. Vol. VIII (ff. 255). The contents include:- (a) papers relating to An Introduction to Algebra translated ... by Thomas Brancker, M.A., much altered ... by D.P. (i.e. Dr. Pell), the letter 'To the Readers' being in Brancker's autograph. 1668. ff. 2-10b;-(b) Notes on John Kersey's 28 ...
PELL PAPERS. Vol. XXIV (ff. 558). A miscellaneous collection of treatises, of Pell's notes on them, problems, tables of logarithms, etc., including the following;- (a) 'Labyrinthus ingenii'; 1629. ff. 1-7;- (b) 'The ground of all the recreations in N[icholas] Hunt's books printed 1631', i.e. New...