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131. Add MS 4383

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THESES ON LOGIC, and, on the back, a collection of scholastic exercises in prose and verse, to some of which the following names are attached: John Edsawe, Thomas Barker, Edward Burton, Thomas Sherley, Thomas ? Bristowe and Thomas Pollard. From Venn's Alumni Cantabrigienses it appears that these...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

132. Add MS 4384

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SPECIMENS of handwriting, notes and tables of mnemonics, etc., as follows:- (1) 'A Coppie booke of the vsuall hands written: sett foorth by Richard Gething, Master in Writinge: ... Anno 1616'. Engraved. It formed the foundation of his Calligraphotechnia, 1652. ff. 3-29. (2) 'The Penmans daily...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

133. Add MS 4385

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COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPHS, consisting of notes, superscriptions and subscriptions to letters, signatures, etc., on scraps of paper. Some were the property of James Petiver, apothecary and botanist, in whose correspondence (Sloane MSS. 4062-4067) letters will be found from all the persons whose au...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1584-1755
Extent:
1 item

134. Add MS 4392

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TREATISES ON NAVIGATION, as follows:- (1) 'The Art of Navigation, Book 1st', and (f. 23) 'Book 3d the latter containing only the first two of the eight chapters described on the title-page (f. 23). Leaves have been cut out (prior to the old foliation) after ff. 6, 11, 17, 22, 27. At the foot of...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

135. Add MS 4393

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TREATISES, etc., relating to methods of finding the longitude, as follows:- (1) 'Demonstratio longitudinum maris et terrae' by H. E. Knoodt, 'Satrapa ... Electoris Trevirensis', etc; 18th cent. ff. 1-6. (2) 'The Use of the Inclynatorie Magneticall Needle to find the Longitude by the use of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

136. Add MS 4394

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. I (ff. 479). The chief contents are:- (a) Animadversions of John Wallis, Savilian Professor of Geometry, on Thomas Hobbes's De Principiis et Ratiocinatione Geometrarum, 1666, in form of a letter; circa 1666. Autograph. Imperfect. ff. 30-31b;- (b) Treatise on faith and works, th...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1657-1684
Extent:
1 item

137. Add MS 4394-4396

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PELL PAPERS (2nd Series) Mathematical and philosophical collections of Dr. John Pell, mathematician (d. 1685) chiefly in the hand of Walter Warner, mathematician (d. 1643). For other series of Pell Papers see Add. MSS. 4278-4280, 4397-4404 and 4407-443 1. Three volumes (Vol. II, III were originally Add. MSS. 4408, 4409). Paper. Folio. XVII cent.
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Walter Warner, d 1643 mathematician: Mathematical and philosophical papers: 1627-1632, n.d.: Mainly autogr. 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:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
3 items

138. Add MS 4395

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. II (ff. 212). The chief contents are:- (a) Another portion of the philosophical discourse described above (art. j). Partly Latin. ff. 1-70;- (b) 'Differentiae singulae sequentes quo pacto addendo vel minuendo et singulas precedentes et ipsas acervorum congeries afficiant et com...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

139. Add MS 4396

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. III (ff. 145). The chief contents are:- (a) 'Axiomata ex canonis genesi analogorum scilicet et tacticorum habitudine deducta atque ex illis definitiones' in Warner's autograph. ff. 1-39;- (b) 'De resectione spacii', in the same hand. ff. 40-62b;- (c) Definitions and proposition...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

140. 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

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