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352. Add MS 4406
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- MISCELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC TREATISES, Viz.:- (1) List of plants, with the title 'Le Jardin d'Arnald'. Latin. ff. 1-28. (2) Treatise on logarithms. French. Imperfect. ff. 29-39. (3) Treatise on chemistry. Latin. Imperfect. ff. 40-42. Paper; ff. 42. Small quarto. XVII cent. includes: ff. 29-...
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- Western Manuscripts
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- French and Latin
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- 17th century
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- 1 item
353. Add MS 4407
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- PELL PAPERS. Vol. I (ff. 198). The contents include:- (1) 'Christiani Hugenii, De Saturni luna observatio nova'; The Hague, 5 Mar. 1656. f. 1. (2) Treatise on geometry, perhaps by George Hastines; n.d. ff. 2-30. (3) Treatise on geometry, perhaps by - Chauveau whose name appears at the head...
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- Western Manuscripts
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- English, French, German, and Latin
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- 17th century
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- 1 item
354. Add MS 4407-4431
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- PELL PAPERS (4th Series) Mathematical collections of John Pell, consisting of treatises, geometrical and other problems and their solutions, tables and calculations of logarithms, etc., chiefly autograph. For other collections made by Pell see Add. MSS. 4278-4280, 4394-4396 and 4397-4404. The names of the writers of a few original letters are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. Twenty-four volumes. Folio.
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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
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- Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
- Date Range:
- [1609-1678]
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- 25 items
355. Add MS 4408
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- Vol. II, (ff. i + 390) includes: f. 55 Jan Janszoon Stampioen, Dutch mathematician and inventor: Notes on his 'Nieuwe Tafelen der polus-hooghte' (1618),: 17th cent. f. 88 John Pell, d 1685 DD; mathematician and diplomatist: Correspondence with Sir C. Lloyd: 1651, n.d. f. 88 Sir Charles Lloyd: ...
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- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 17th century
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- 1 item
356. Add MS 4408-4409
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- PELL PAPERS. Extracts from mathematical works, miscellaneous calculations of logarithms, geometrical problems, notes on optics, etc.
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- Western Manuscripts
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- Dutch, English, and Latin
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- 17th century
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- 2 items
357. Add MS 4409
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- Vol. III (ff. i + 392). includes: f. 18 Johann Heinrich Rahn, the elder; Swiss mathematician: Letter to: 1654: Lat. f. 20 Jacobus a Wassanaer: Mathematical problems: 17th cent.: Dutch. f. 21 Sir Samuel Morland, 1st Baronet; diplomatist and mathematician: Note by J. Pell on the cyclometrical pa...
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- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Dutch, English, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 17th century
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- 1 item
358. Add MS 4410
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- PELL PAPERS. Vol. IV (ff. 226). Papers relating to the finding of Easter in connection with his pamphlet printed in 1664, Easter not mistimed, A Letter ... to a Friend (i.e. Theodore Haak), a copy of which is inserted at the beginning of the volume (ff. 1-8), etc. Thomas Streete, astronomer: No...
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- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1661-1664
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- 1 item
359. Add MS 4411
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- PELL PAPERS. Vol. V (ff. 412). Papers relating to his Tabula numerorum quadratorum decies millium, 1672, tables of logarithms, and solutions of problems in which the works of Thomas Brancker, Franciscus à Schooten, Johann Heinrich Rahn and others are quoted. includes: f. 24 John Brereton, 4th ...
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- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
360. Add MS 4412
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- PELL PAPERS. Vol. VI (ff. 373). Tables of logarithms, and miscellaneous geometrical problems and calculations. includes: ff. 1-6 Henry Briggs, d 1631 mathematician: Extracts from his works: 17th cent.
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- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 item