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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4419
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Scope & Content:: PELL PAPERS. Vol. XIII (ff. i + 341). Miscellaneous geometrical and trigonometrical problems, calculations, and extracts from the works of William Oughtred, Henry Briggs, Diophantus Alexandrinus, etc. Diophantus, of Alexandria; Greek mathematician: Arithmetical problems by: 17th cent. includes...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4420
Title:
Scope & Content:: 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 ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4422
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vos. XVI (ff. 341). includes: ff. 42, 43 Newspapers Great Britain and Ireland: 'Poor Robin's Intelligence': 1676. ff. 62-77, 80-84, 163b, 181, 226 Henry Briggs, d 1631 mathematician: Extracts from his works: 17th cent. f. 78 Robert Hooke, FRS: Note by J. Pell on his 'Animadversiones': aft. 167...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1641-1676
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4422-4423
Title:: PELL PAPERS. Tables of logarithms, and the solution of trigonometrical or geometrical problems, relating especially to spherical triangles, mechanics, etc.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1641-1682
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4423
Title:
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
Title:
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
Title:
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 4425-4429
Title:: PELL PAPERS. Solutions of various trigonometrical, optical, and philosophical problems, with tables of logarithms, etc., and (in 4426) some tradesrnen's and household bills (1661-1663) and family notes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 1661-1663
Extent:: 5 items

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