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31. Add MS 88942/1/213

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('On some properties of Conic Sections')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains elementary geometry and was started in the period 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 Add MS 88942/1/212. Talbot discussed the same subject with ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1864]-1865
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 23 pages of text)

32. Add MS 88942/1/214

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on algebra, equations of degree 3 and 5, solutions of a cubic, and refers back to Talbot's studies of the 1830s. The inside front cover records that it was commenced at 13 Great Stuart Street, Edinburgh, and was therefore begun after 1864/65 when Talbot purchased thi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1860s]
Extent:
1 notebook (16 folios, 8 pages of text)

33. Add MS 88942/1/215

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('The Elements of Plane Geometry extracted from the works of Playfair, Le Gendre, and others')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains mainly notes on mathematics and begins with copied extracts entitled 'The Elements of Plane Geometry'. It also includes a brief note dated 'April 18th 1817' on the conjunction of Mars and Saturn. With many blank pages, and a few pages cut out.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1816?-1817
Extent:
1 notebook (74 folios, 22 pages of text)

34. Add MS 88942/1/216

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This mathematical exercise notebook contains algebraic equations and a few notes on analytical geometry, and may relate to Add MS 88942/1/198.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 46 pages of text), 5 loose sheets (5 folios, 10 pages of text)

35. Add MS 88942/1/217

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
A notebook containing rough calculations, mainly algebraic equations of third and fifth degree, some analyses (integrals, differentials and trigonometric functions) as well as many auxiliary calculations. It is related to Add MS 88942/1/197.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (36 folios, 7 pages of text)

36. Add MS 88942/1/218

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This mathematical notebook contains definitions and theorems, proofs, some analytical geometry (possibly some extracts from a book). On the final folio (f. 32), Talbot has written: 'End of Part 2 of Researches'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (i + 32 ff.)

37. Add MS 88942/1/239

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
A printed diary ('The Student's Journal'), inscribed (inside front flyleaf) 'W.H.F. Talbot A.D. 1816'. Contains miscellaneous notes, such as the names of places with latitudes/longitudes, co-ordinates of locations in the north of England, a 'Grecian Chronology', and a list of 'Illustrious Greeks'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1816
Extent:
1 notebook (73 folios, 23 pages of text), with 5 loose sheets

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