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321. Add MS 4395

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. II (ff. 212). The chief contents are:- (a) Another portion of the philosophical discourse described above (art. j). Partly Latin. ff. 1-70;- (b) 'Differentiae singulae sequentes quo pacto addendo vel minuendo et singulas precedentes et ipsas acervorum congeries afficiant et com...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

322. Add MS 4396

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. III (ff. 145). The chief contents are:- (a) 'Axiomata ex canonis genesi analogorum scilicet et tacticorum habitudine deducta atque ex illis definitiones' in Warner's autograph. ff. 1-39;- (b) 'De resectione spacii', in the same hand. ff. 40-62b;- (c) Definitions and proposition...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

323. Add MS 4397

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. I (ff. 65). Included are:- (1) 'Tabulae Directoriae ad praxin Mathematicam nonnichil conferentes. Cum earundem constructione et usu' by John Pell; 16 July 1628. ff. 1-5b. (2) 'Eclipticus Prognosta, or The Eclips Prognosticator', by the same; 10 Apr. 1634. ff. 12-20. (3) '...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1628-1658
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1 item

324. Add MS 4397-4404

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PELL PAPERS (3rd Series) Mathematical collections of John Pell, consisting of treatises, calculations, and extracts from printed works, with other miscellaneous matter, chiefly in Pell's autograph. For the 1st, 2nd and 4th Series of these collections see Add. MSS. 4278-4280, 4394-4396, 4407-4431. A few letters are interspersed; the names of the writers of these are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. Eight volumes. 17th cent.
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John Pell, d 1685 DD; mathematician and diplomatist: Mathematical and scientific collections: 1617-1681, n.d.: Mainly autogr. Mathematics: Mathematical collections of J. Pell: 17th cent.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
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8 items

325. Add MS 4398

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. II (ff. 196). Included are:- (1) An Introduction to Algebra, translated ... by Thomas Brancker, M.A., much altered and augmented by D.P. (i.e. Dr. Pell); 1668. Printed with MS. corrections in Pell's autograph. ff. 1-32. (2) Letters to Dr. Pell from:-(a) Henry Briggs; Merton ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1628-1676
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1 item

326. Add MS 4399

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. III (ff. 93). Miscellaneous calculations, and extracts from works by Pell, John Wyberd, Henry Briggs, and Christiaan Huygens. includes: ff. 10, 21 John Wyberd, mathematician: Notes by J. Pell on his 'Tactometria' (1650),: 17th cent. f. 90 Christiaan Huygens, d 1695 Heer van Z...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

327. Add MS 4400

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. IV (ff. 92). Included are:- (1) 'Controversia De Verâ Circuli mensurâ anno MDCXLIV exorta inter Christianum Severini Longomontanum ... et Joannem Pellium'. Followed (f. 4) by four leaves from a work on the same subject printed at Copenhagen, 1644. ff. 1-7b. (2) Propositions ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

328. Add MS 4401

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. V (ff. 123). Included are:- (a) 'The Description and use of the Quadrant, Written for the use of a freind, by Jo[hn] P[ell] ... 1628'. ff. 3-14b;- (b) Treatise on 'Canonicall numbers'. ff. 15-20;- (c) 'Resolutions of Problems', 1666; containing many allusions to Franciscus à Sc...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1431-1666
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1 item

329. Add MS 4402

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. VI (ff. 16). Viz.:- (a) Arithmetical treatise on fractions. ff. 1-9;- (b) Trigonometrical treatise on 'The Doctrine of Triangles'. ff. 10b-16.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

330. Add MS 4403

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. VII (ff. 169). Included are:- (1) Logarithmo-Technia, by Nicolaus Mercator, 1668, to which is joined Exercitatio Geometrica de Maximis et Minimis by Michele Angelo Ricci, 1668. Printed, with a few MS. additions and notes by Pell. ff. 1-40. (2) Treatises in shorthand (Ridpat...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item