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31. Add MS 88942/1/193

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Add MS 88942/1/193
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('M')
Scope & Content:
This manifold notebook reflects Talbot's broad interests and contains mainly notes on chemistry, with entries on optics, astronomy and mathematics. Talbot solves equations, conic sections, gives references to secondary literature and copies extracts from Euclid's Elements. The notebook includes ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1834-1835
Extent:
1 notebook (178 numbered pages)

32. Add MS 88942/1/194

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Add MS 88942/1/194
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('N')
Scope & Content:
The notebook begins by recording further observations of Comet Halley during October and November 1835 (pp. 2-3). The remainder of the notebook comprises work on various mathematical topics, including: conic sections, integrals, the parabola, the partition of numbers, trinominal curves, Wilson's...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1835-1836
Extent:
1 notebook (180 numbered pages)

33. Add MS 88942/1/186

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('D')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains notes on mathematical and other scientific subjects. Regarding astronomy, the notebook contains many notes on recent comets. On 14 October 1825, Talbot observed the Pons comet (which reached perigee on 12 October) 'with the large telescope' (f. 7) . Talbot made notes on re...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1825-1871
Extent:
1 notebook (i + 99 ff.)

34. Add MS 88942/1/191

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Add MS 88942/1/191
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('J')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains various notes on a wide range of subjects. Mathematical notes towards the end of the notebook, headed 'at Nice, Nov. 17', deal with conic sections, eccentricities, hyperbolas, and the multiplication of integrals (one entry is dated 'Feb. 16 1834'), long notes on definite a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1832-1834
Extent:
1 notebook (67 folios, 109 pages of text)

35. Add MS 88942/1/195

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('O')
Scope & Content:
The notebook begins with remarks on the structure of the pollen of the Stone Pine, and later (p. 22) on the pollen of the Tulip, interspersed with various observations on crystallization. The notebook includes fleeting astronomical remarks. For example, on the determination of the mass of doubl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1836-1838
Extent:
1 notebook (174 numbered pages)

36. Add MS 88942/1/215

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Add MS 88942/1/215
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)

37. 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

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