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11. 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)

12. 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)

13. Add MS 88942/1/210

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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)

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