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Add MS 4397-4404
- Record Id:
- 036-002109880
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002109547
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000016.0x0002a5
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- ISAD(G)
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- 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.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002109547
036-002109880 - Is part of:
- Add MS 4101-4478 : Manuscripts collected by Thomas Birch (b. 1705, d. 1766), D.D., and bequeathed by him to the British Museum, of which he was…
Add MS 4397-4404 : PELL PAPERS (3rd Series) Mathematical collections of John Pell, consisting of treatises, calculations, and extracts from… - Contains:
- Add MS 4397 : PELL PAPERS. Vol. I (ff. 65). Included are:- (1) 'Tabulae Directoriae ad praxin Mathematicam nonnichil conferentes. Cum…
Add MS 4398 : PELL PAPERS. Vol. II (ff. 196). Included are:- (1) An Introduction to Algebra, translated ... by Thomas Brancker, M.A., much altered…
Add MS 4399 : PELL PAPERS. Vol. III (ff. 93). Miscellaneous calculations, and extracts from works by Pell, John Wyberd, Henry Briggs, and…
Add MS 4400 : PELL PAPERS. Vol. IV (ff. 92). Included are:-(1) 'Controversia De Verâ Circuli mensurâ anno MDCXLIV exorta inter Christianum…
Add MS 4401 : PELL PAPERS. Vol. V (ff. 123). Included are:- (a) 'The Description and use of the Quadrant, Written for the use of a freind, by…
Add MS 4402 : PELL PAPERS. Vol. VI (ff. 16). Viz.:- (a) Arithmetical treatise on fractions. ff. 1-9;- (b) Trigonometrical treatise on 'The…
Add MS 4403 : PELL PAPERS. Vol. VII (ff. 169). Included are:- (1) Logarithmo-Technia, by Nicolaus Mercator, 1668, to which is joined…
Add MS 4404 : PELL PAPERS. Vol. VIII (ff. 26). Viz.:- (a) treatise on trigonometry. Latin. ff. 1-14;- (b) tables of logarithms, by John Pell.…
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- 032-002109547[0166]/036-002109880
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- Record Type (Level):
- Series
- Extent:
- 8 items
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Pell, John, mathematician and diplomatist, 1611-1685