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Project / Collection Additional Manuscripts Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 4101-4478 Name Briggs, Henry, mathematician, d 1631

1. Add MS 4398

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. II (ff. 196). Included are:- (1) An Introduction to Algebra, translated ... by Thomas Brancker, M.A., much altered and augmented by D.P. (i.e. Dr. Pell); 1668. Printed with MS. corrections in Pell's autograph. ff. 1-32. (2) Letters to Dr. Pell from:-(a) Henry Briggs; Merton ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1628-1676
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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 4412

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. VI (ff. 373). Tables of logarithms, and miscellaneous geometrical problems and calculations. includes: ff. 1-6 Henry Briggs, d 1631 mathematician: Extracts from his works: 17th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 4415

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. IX (ff. i + 330). Various works and extracts, partly in Pell's autograph, among them being:-(a) 'De progressionis differentialis gradu secundo'; 1630. f. 9;-(b) 'Logistica generalis'; 1634. f. 15;-(c) 'Progymnasma analyticum'; 1637. f. 19;-(d) 'Paradigmata progressionis differe...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1630-1637
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 4419

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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

6. 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

7. Add MS 4422

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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

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