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1. Add MS 32528-32551

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WORKS of Roger North
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Accounts, Etymology, Music, Perspective, Building, the Barometer and Baroscope, Natural Philosophy, etc.; nearly all in his own hand. Twenty-four volumes.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
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24 items

2. Add MS 32529-32530

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Voll. II., III. "OF ETIMOLOGY": draughts and revises of an essay on etymology, chiefly in connection with the study of the Common Law of England. Two volumes. At the end of the second volume (f. 112) are "Conjecturall Etimologyes," or explanations of various words and political and other nick-names; and (f. 147 b) peculiarities of the Norfolk dialect, etc. Paper; ff. 238, 152. Early XVIIIth cent. Small Quarto, and Small Folio.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
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2 items

3. Add MS 32538-32539

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Voll. XI., XII. "SPECULUM Opticum. Being a short Idea of Perspective, clearly explicated, as well by a series of discours, as by apt schematismes, wech may be perused either conjoyntly or apart, and each sufficient, with or without ye other. By one of the Executors of ye late Sir P. Lely": draughts and revises on the subject, in various stages. Two volumes. Paper; ff. 191, 221. Early XVIIIth cent. Small Quarto.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
2 items

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Vol. V. "SOME MEMORANDUMS concerning Musick": comprising, "Hints about Musick," "The Doctrine of Discords," "Graces in playing," "Of soft and lowd," "Of stop or paus," "Of fuge," "Of ye different sorts of Musick," "For keeping time," "Examen of ye ordinary musicall rules," "Of Harmony," "Of Desc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

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Vol. XXI. "Loci phisiologici, ordine fortuito": a series of note-books containing essays and collections, some of which are embodied in other volumes. The contents are 1. "Extension and Body." f. 2. 2. "Of Magnitude." f. 5. 3. "Of continuity or cohesion of bodys." f. 10.. 4. "Of vacuity an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 32537

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Vol. X. "THE MUSICALL Grammarian," and "Theory of Sound": rough draughts of the musical essays, imperfect and partially disconnected. Paper ; ff. 241. Early XVIIIth cent. Small Quarto. Roger North, son of Dudley, 4th Baron North: Works on music: 18th cent. Music: Musical recollections: essays ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 32542

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Vol. XV. "THE AIR-GAGER. Being a meteorologicall essay of the Barometer. Attempting, by undoubted principles of phisicks, to demonstrate the connection of ye propertys of the air with the movement of the mercury; whereby the Instrument becomes a prognostick of weather. With ye rules and observat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

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Vol. XVIII. DRAUGHTS, more or less imperfect, of essays on Natural Philosophy, including the heads of "Phisicks," "Principles," "Hypotheses," "Experiments," "Contintuity," "Complexitys," "Plenitude," "Absolutes and Relatives," "Phantasmes," and "Resolves." At the beginning is a portion of a pref...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 32535

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Vol. VIII. "THEORY of Sounds. Shewing the Genesis, Propagation, Effects, and Augmentations of them. Reduced to a Specifick Inquiry into the Cripticks of Harmony and Discord, with Eikons annexed exposing them to occular inspection": two revises of the above essay in Add. MS. 32,534, dated 1726 an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1726-1728
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 32533

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Vol. VI. "THE MUSICALL Grammarian, or a practick Essay upon Harmony, plain and artificiall, with notes of comparison between the Elder and Later Musick, and somewhat Historicall of both." [The first Part of Musical Recollections.] It was from another revise of this essay that Rimbault extracted ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item