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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4401
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Scope & Content:: PELL PAPERS. Vol. V (ff. 123). Included are:- (a) 'The Description and use of the Quadrant, Written for the use of a freind, by Jo[hn] P[ell] ... 1628'. ff. 3-14b;- (b) Treatise on 'Canonicall numbers'. ff. 15-20;- (c) 'Resolutions of Problems', 1666; containing many allusions to Franciscus à Sc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1431-1666
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4402
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Scope & Content:: PELL PAPERS. Vol. VI (ff. 16). Viz.:- (a) Arithmetical treatise on fractions. ff. 1-9;- (b) Trigonometrical treatise on 'The Doctrine of Triangles'. ff. 10b-16.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

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 4407-4431
Title:: PELL PAPERS (4th Series) Mathematical collections of John Pell, consisting of treatises, geometrical and other problems and their solutions, tables and calculations of logarithms, etc., chiefly autograph. For other collections made by Pell see Add. MSS. 4278-4280, 4394-4396 and 4397-4404. The names of the writers of a few original letters are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. Twenty-four volumes. Folio.
Scope & Content:: John Pell, d 1685 DD; mathematician and diplomatist: Mathematical and scientific collections: 1617-1681, n.d.: Mainly autogr. Mathematics: Mathematical collections of J. Pell: 17th cent.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: [1609-1678]
Extent:: 25 items

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 4408-4409
Title:: PELL PAPERS. Extracts from mathematical works, miscellaneous calculations of logarithms, geometrical problems, notes on optics, etc.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 2 items

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