Talbot: Notebook ('The Octagon of the Tiglath Pileser I')
Scope & Content:
This notebook continues notebook Add MS 88942/1/146 with the translation of 'Tiglath Pileser'. See also Add MS 88942/1/148. Notebook started: 20 Feb 1857.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1857
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 22 pages of text), 1 loose sheet (1 folio, 2 pages of text)
Talbot: Notebook ('The Legend of Ishtar decending to Hades')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains a line by line translation of 'The Legend of Ishtar descending to Hades'. It is probably a draft for a later publication. Notebook started: 14 Mar 1873.
Talbot: Notebook ('Note on the early History of Spectrum Analysis')
Scope & Content:
Draft of an article Talbot published much later, in 1872. Talbot refers to Fraunhofer, Brewster, Newton, and Wollaston. Several references are quoted up to 1842, and reference is made to the 'Manchester meeting' (1842) of the British Association (numbered p. 9).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1842
Extent:
1 notebook (16 folios, 12 pages of text), 2 loose sheets (2 folios, 2 pages of text)
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...