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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Belshazzar')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes headed 'Belshazzar'. At the back of the notebook (upside-down) are various notes beginning 'an Ode to Fire'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (32 folios, 7 pages of text)

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Title:
Printer's Proof: 'The Legend of Ishtar Descending to Hades' by H. F. Talbot
Scope & Content:
Printer’s proof, originally kept with Add MS 88942/1/175. The printed text is annotated in pencil throughout with corrections and revisions.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1873]
Extent:
5 folios, 9 pages of text

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('A')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains various astronomical and atmospheric observations (dated 1817 and 1819) and a few mathematical notes. Talbot studied planes revolving around an axis, found the equation for a curve traced by its intersection with a line (parabola), and also took extensive notes on the posit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1817-1844
Extent:
1 notebook (21 ff.)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('B')
Scope & Content:
Talbot used this astronomical and mathematical notebook between 1822 and 1824 (the notebook includes the date Feb 11 1824 on a later page). The notebook continues notes on comets commenced in notebook 'A' (Add MS 88942/1/183), begining with notes on the first comet of 1822 discovered in Auriga M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1822-1824
Extent:
1 notebook (59 folios, 97 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('C')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains mainly astronomical and a few mathematical notes. The notebook contains substantial records of Talbot’s conversations with Dominique Arago at the Paris Observatory from March 1825. Talbot used the large telescope there to observe Jupiter, the Crab nebula and the Orion nebu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1825
Extent:
1 notebook (44 folios, 70 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('D')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains notes on mathematical and other scientific subjects. Regarding astronomy, the notebook contains many notes on recent comets. On 14 October 1825, Talbot observed the Pons comet (which reached perigee on 12 October) 'with the large telescope' (f. 7) . Talbot made notes on re...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1825-1871
Extent:
1 notebook (i + 99 ff.)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('E')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains notes on astronomy and mathematics. These include remarks on the obliquity of the ecliptic (i.e. the tilt of the Earth’s axis) dated 20 January 1828, notes on the 'Photometer', and notes on integrals, possibly in preparation for 'Researches in the Integral Calculus' (1836 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1827-1835
Extent:
1 notebook (21 folios, 38 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('F')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains notes on astronomy (remarks on the solar spectrum and the observation of Saturn, 28 December 1828), mathematics (conic sections and cones, hyperbolas etc.) and various other notes. These include notes on a solution that leaves a prismatic film on glass, and notes on the 'C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-1830
Extent:
1 notebook (26 folios, 35 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('H')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains mathematical notes on analyses (definite and indefinite integrals, 'On multiform functions', algebraic equations, and 'Arcs in the cubic parabola') and excerpts from books. A few late entries are from October 1835. Notebook started: 11 Oct 1830, Lacock. Designated 'H' on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1830-1835
Extent:
1 notebook (19 folios, 35 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('I')
Scope & Content:
Notes on various subjects. Regarding astronomy, the notebook contains a method for correcting the level of a telescope and remarks on the examination of the spectrum of the sun and of the moon. Mathematical notes deal with cubic parabloa, integrale, 'equilateral hyperbola', lemniscates and longi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1831-[1832]
Extent:
1 notebook (71 ff.)