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151. Add MS 4408-4409

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PELL PAPERS. Extracts from mathematical works, miscellaneous calculations of logarithms, geometrical problems, notes on optics, etc.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
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2 items

152. Add MS 4409

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

153. Add MS 4411

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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 ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

154. Add MS 4413

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

155. Add MS 4414

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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 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1650-1675
Extent:
1 item

156. Add MS 4415

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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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1630-1637
Extent:
1 item

157. Add MS 4417

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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...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

158. Add MS 4418

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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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1609-1640
Extent:
1 item

159. 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
Extent:
1 item

160. Add MS 4420

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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 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item