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1. Add MS 88942/1/192

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('K')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains astronomical and mathematical notes. On the penultimate page of the notebook, Talbot records his observation of a total lunar eclipse at Paris, 26 December 1833. The mathematical notes deal with ellipses, hyperbolas, conic sections, parabolas, biquadratic equations, parabo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1833-1841
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 45 pages of text)

2. 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)

3. Add MS 88942/1/183

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('A')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains various astronomical and atmospheric observations (dated 1817 and 1819) and a few mathematical notes. Talbot studied planes revolving around an axis, found the equation for a curve traced by its intersection with a line (parabola), and also took extensive notes on the posit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1817-1844
Extent:
1 notebook (21 ff.)

4. Add MS 88942/1/184

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('B')
Scope & Content:
Talbot used this astronomical and mathematical notebook between 1822 and 1824 (the notebook includes the date Feb 11 1824 on a later page). The notebook continues notes on comets commenced in notebook 'A' (Add MS 88942/1/183), begining with notes on the first comet of 1822 discovered in Auriga M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1822-1824
Extent:
1 notebook (59 folios, 97 pages of text)

5. Add MS 88942/1/185

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('C')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains mainly astronomical and a few mathematical notes. The notebook contains substantial records of Talbot’s conversations with Dominique Arago at the Paris Observatory from March 1825. Talbot used the large telescope there to observe Jupiter, the Crab nebula and the Orion nebu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1825
Extent:
1 notebook (44 folios, 70 pages of text)

6. Add MS 88942/1/187

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('E')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains notes on astronomy and mathematics. These include remarks on the obliquity of the ecliptic (i.e. the tilt of the Earth’s axis) dated 20 January 1828, notes on the 'Photometer', and notes on integrals, possibly in preparation for 'Researches in the Integral Calculus' (1836 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1827-1835
Extent:
1 notebook (21 folios, 38 pages of text)

7. Add MS 88942/1/188

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('F')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains notes on astronomy (remarks on the solar spectrum and the observation of Saturn, 28 December 1828), mathematics (conic sections and cones, hyperbolas etc.) and various other notes. These include notes on a solution that leaves a prismatic film on glass, and notes on the 'C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-1830
Extent:
1 notebook (26 folios, 35 pages of text)

8. Add MS 88942/1/190

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('I')
Scope & Content:
Notes on various subjects. Regarding astronomy, the notebook contains a method for correcting the level of a telescope and remarks on the examination of the spectrum of the sun and of the moon. Mathematical notes deal with cubic parabloa, integrale, 'equilateral hyperbola', lemniscates and longi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1831-[1832]
Extent:
1 notebook (71 ff.)

9. Add MS 88942/1/193

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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)

10. Add MS 88942/1/194

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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)

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