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21. Add MS 88942/1/203

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Add MS 88942/1/203
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains mathematical notes dealing with integrals, equations of third degree, algebraic equations, integrals and differentials and trigonometric functions, and broken rational and irrational functions. It contains many auxiliary calculations; some results are copied from publicati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1837-1838
Extent:
1 notebook (28 folios, 49 pages of text)

22. Add MS 88942/1/204

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Add MS 88942/1/204
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains a mathematical essay (entitled 'Some additional remarks') on Euclidian geometry (angular sums in triangular figures). It is probably related to Add MS 88942/1/205, which treats parallel lines. The original pagination of the notebook (which begins with p. 19) indicates th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1860s]
Extent:
1 notebook (ii + 15 ff.)

23. Add MS 88942/1/205

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Add MS 88942/1/205
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('On the Theory of Parallel Lines')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains an essay on Euclidian geometry entitled 'On the Theory of Parallel Lines'. It is probably related to Add MS 88942/1/204. The notebook includes several small loose sheets (now foliated) showing various geometric figures based on the triangle.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1860s]
Extent:
1 notebook (i + ii + 26 ff.)

24. Add MS 88942/1/206

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Add MS 88942/1/206
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Some mathematical researches')
Scope & Content:
This mathematical notebook contains various notes (e.g. 'On the irreducible case in cubic equations'). The notes are probably related to Talbot, 'Some Mathematical Researches' (1867). At the back of the notebook, there are references to the Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics (1857)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1866?-1867
Extent:
1 notebook (16 folios, 26 pages of text)

25. Add MS 88942/1/207

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Add MS 88942/1/207
Title:
Talbot: Notebook (continuation of 'Essay towards a General Solution of Numerical Equations...')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is a continuation of Add MS 88942/1/208, and comprises a continuation of the draft manuscript of 'Essay towards a General Solution of Numerical Equations of all Degrees having Integer Roots' (1875). Notebook pages used are numbered 17-24. With (preceding) loose sheets numbered 13-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1874?-1875?
Extent:
1 notebook, plus 8 loose sheets

26. Add MS 88942/1/208

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Add MS 88942/1/208
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Essay towards a General Solution of Numerical Equations of all Degrees having Integer Roots')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains the first portion of a draft of 'Essay towards a General Solution of Numerical Equations...' (1875), i.e. numbered pages 1-12. For the remainder of the draft (beginning numbered page 13), see Add MS 88942/1/207. The file includes corrected printer's proofs.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1874?-1875
Extent:
1 notebook, plus printer's proofs

27. Add MS 88942/1/209

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Add MS 88942/1/209
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains algebraic equations of the third degree. It is probably related to Talbot's 'Essay towards a General Solution of Numerical Equations of all Degrees having Integer Roots' (1875). Notebook started: 25 Apr [1875].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1875]
Extent:
1 notebook (15 folios, 16 pages of text)

28. Add MS 88942/1/210

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Add MS 88942/1/210
Title:
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)

29. Add MS 88942/1/211

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Add MS 88942/1/211
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('On some properties of Conic Sections')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains notes on geometry entitled ‘On some properties of conic sections’. It is possibly a very first draft for a publication (see also Add MS 88942/1/213). Four pages dated 'March 3 [18]66' are headed 'Commencement of a proposed new paper'. At the back of the notebook (upside-d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1864-1866
Extent:
1 notebook (50 folios, 70 pages of text)

30. Add MS 88942/1/212

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Add MS 88942/1/212
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Note on Confocal Conic Sections')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains elementary geometry and was started after 1864/65 when Talbot purchased a house in 13 Great Stuart Street, Edinburgh. It contains a draft for Talbot's 'Note on Confocal Conic Sections' (1865) and continues with Add MS 88942/1/213. Talbot discussed the same subject with the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1864
Extent:
1 notebook (53 folios, 14 pages of text)

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