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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4429
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Scope & Content:: Vol. XXIII (ff. 471). includes: f. 8 Henry Oldenburg, Secretary of the Royal Society: Letter to, from G. W. von Leibnitz: 1676.: Lat. f. 8 Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz, d 1716, German philosopher and mathematician: Correspondence with H. Oldenburg: circ. 1673-1676.: Lat.: Partly copies...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1661-1663
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4431
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Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 1629
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4432
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Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1663-1755
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4432-4448
Title:: 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:-
Scope & Content:: Royal Society: Papers rel. to: 1662-1765.: Engl., Lat., Fr. and Germ.: Partly printed.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1660-1765
Extent:: 17 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4433
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Scope & Content:: 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 ....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1731-1737
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4434
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Scope & Content:: 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'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1736-1738
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4435
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Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1738-1739
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4436
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Scope & Content:: ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS. Vol. V. (ff. 246). (1) 'Dissertation concerning the Measure of the Force of Bodies in Motion,' by J. T. Desaguliers; 29 Mar. 1739. ff. 1-10. (2) 'A New Method of improving and perfecting Catadioptrical Telescopes', by Caleb Smith; 5 Apr. 1739. Cf. Phil. Trans., xli, p. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1735-1760
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4437
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Scope & Content:: ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS. Vol. VI (ff. 285). (1) François de Brémond, M.D., to Dr. C. Mortimer concerning a file rendered magnetical by lightning; Paris, 4 June 1740. English translation. Cf. Phil. Trans., xli, 614. ff. 1-2b. (2) 'Some Reflexions on Generation and on Monsters', by Daniel de Super...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1740-1742
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4438
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Scope & Content:: ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS. Vol. VII (ff. 268). (1) Sigismund Ferdinand Weismüller to the Secretary of the Royal Society with (a) printed tract 'Speculum Dei mundum fabricantis in septenario ad mentem Philonis de opificio mundi, 1742';- (b) an essay, 'Quadratura circuli e Tetraëdro et prismate', etc....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1735-1747
Extent:: 1 item

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