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1. 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) '...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1628-1658
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1 item

2. Add MS 4398

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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 ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1628-1676
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 4399

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. III (ff. 93). Miscellaneous calculations, and extracts from works by Pell, John Wyberd, Henry Briggs, and Christiaan Huygens. includes: ff. 10, 21 John Wyberd, mathematician: Notes by J. Pell on his 'Tactometria' (1650),: 17th cent. f. 90 Christiaan Huygens, d 1695 Heer van Z...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 4400

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

5. Add MS 4401

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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

6. Add MS 4402

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. VI (ff. 16). Viz.:- (a) Arithmetical treatise on fractions. ff. 1-9;- (b) Trigonometrical treatise on 'The Doctrine of Triangles'. ff. 10b-16.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 4403

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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

8. Add MS 4404

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. VIII (ff. 26). Viz.:- (a) treatise on trigonometry. Latin. ff. 1-14;- (b) tables of logarithms, by John Pell. ff. 16-20b. Added (f. 25) is a list of dues to the king in 1680, 1681, for tenths at Laindon and Fobbing, co. Essex, of which Pell was Vicar and Rector. includes: f. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1680-1681
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1 item