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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4403
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Scope & Content:: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4404
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Scope & Content:: 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
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4405
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Scope & Content:: ARITHMETICAL EXERCISE BOOK of Thomas Massey; 1720. Paper; ff. 70. Quarto. A.D. 1720. Thomas Massey: Arithmetical exercise book: 1720. Mathematics: Arithmetical exercise book of Thomas Massey: 1720.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1720
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4406
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Scope & Content:: MISCELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC TREATISES, Viz.:- (1) List of plants, with the title 'Le Jardin d'Arnald'. Latin. ff. 1-28. (2) Treatise on logarithms. French. Imperfect. ff. 29-39. (3) Treatise on chemistry. Latin. Imperfect. ff. 40-42. Paper; ff. 42. Small quarto. XVII cent. includes: ff. 29-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4407
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Scope & Content:: PELL PAPERS. Vol. I (ff. 198). The contents include:- (1) 'Christiani Hugenii, De Saturni luna observatio nova'; The Hague, 5 Mar. 1656. f. 1. (2) Treatise on geometry, perhaps by George Hastines; n.d. ff. 2-30. (3) Treatise on geometry, perhaps by - Chauveau whose name appears at the head...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4408
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Scope & Content:: Vol. II, (ff. i + 390) includes: f. 55 Jan Janszoon Stampioen, Dutch mathematician and inventor: Notes on his 'Nieuwe Tafelen der polus-hooghte' (1618),: 17th cent. f. 88 John Pell, d 1685 DD; mathematician and diplomatist: Correspondence with Sir C. Lloyd: 1651, n.d. f. 88 Sir Charles Lloyd: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4409
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Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4410
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Scope & Content:: PELL PAPERS. Vol. IV (ff. 226). Papers relating to the finding of Easter in connection with his pamphlet printed in 1664, Easter not mistimed, A Letter ... to a Friend (i.e. Theodore Haak), a copy of which is inserted at the beginning of the volume (ff. 1-8), etc. Thomas Streete, astronomer: No...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1661-1664
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4411
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Scope & Content:: 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 ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4412
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Scope & Content:: PELL PAPERS. Vol. VI (ff. 373). Tables of logarithms, and miscellaneous geometrical problems and calculations. includes: ff. 1-6 Henry Briggs, d 1631 mathematician: Extracts from his works: 17th cent.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

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