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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 4101-4478 Name Vieta, Franciscus, French geometrician, d 1603 Level [40] File

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 4407

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

3. 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

4. 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
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1 item

5. 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 ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 4423

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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...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1653-1682
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 4428

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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 ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1661-1663
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1 item

8. Add MS 4431

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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...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1629
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1 item