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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4423
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Scope & Content:: Vol. XVII (ff. 405). includes: ff. 1-4 Thomas Hobbes, philosopher: Geometrical papers by, with refutations of them: 1671.: Printed. f. 50 Johann Heinrich Rahn, the elder; Swiss mathematician: Letters to J. Pell: 1654-1675.: Lat. f. 50 John Pell, d 1685 DD; mathematician and diplomatist: Letter...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1653-1682
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4424
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Scope & Content:: PELL PAPERS. Vol. XVIII (ff. i + 458). The contents include tables, etc., of sines, and other trigonometrical problems and notes on (a) the publication of his Tabula numerorum quadratorum decies millium, 1672. ff. 80-102;-(b) Dr. John Twysden's problem on triangles. ff. 137-259, passim. include...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1673-1682
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4425
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Scope & Content:: Vol. XIX (ff. 413). includes: f. 8 Giovanni Battista Calvenzano, merchant, of Milan: Bookplate: 17th cent. ff. 48, 82 William Oughtred, d 1660 mathematician: Extracts from his mathematical works: 17th cent. f. 57 (copy), 60 John Collins, d 1683 FRS; mathematician: Letter to, from M. Davy: 1675...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1661-1663
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4426
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Scope & Content:: Vol. XX (ff. 266). John Pell, d 1685 DD; mathematician and diplomatist: Household bills, family notes, etc.: 1661-1663. includes: f. 220 John Pell, d 1685 DD; mathematician and diplomatist: Letters to C.S. Longomontanus: n.d.: Lat.: Drafts. f. 220 Christianus Severinus Longomontanus, d 1647 D...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1661-1663
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4428
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Scope & Content:: Vol. XXII (ff. 339). includes: f. 24 Rudolph van Ommeren, Dutch Commissioner to the Evangelical Cantons of Switzerland: Letter to J. Pell: circ. 1656.: Fr. f. 24 John Pell, d 1685 DD; mathematician and diplomatist: Letter to, from R. van Ommeren: circ. 1656.: Fr. ff. 44-45b Calendars: 'How to ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 1661-1663
Extent:: 1 item

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 4430
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Scope & Content:: PELL PAPERS. Vol. XXIV (ff. 139). Problems and tables of logarithms, including some problems 'Dictated to George Schwarts at his going away, Chichester 1630' (f. 21) and some 'Given to William More at his going away from Chichester, Ao. 1630' (f. 30). includes: f. 21 George Schwarts: Logarithm...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1630
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

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