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Add MS 4407-4431
- Record Id:
- 036-002109891
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002109547
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000016.0x0002a6
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- 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.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002109547
036-002109891 - 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 4407-4431 : PELL PAPERS (4th Series) Mathematical collections of John Pell, consisting of treatises, geometrical and other problems and… - Contains:
- Add MS 4407 : PELL PAPERS. Vol. I (ff. 198). The contents include:- (1) 'Christiani Hugenii, De Saturni luna observatio nova'; The Hague, 5…
Add MS 4408-4409 : PELL PAPERS. Extracts from mathematical works, miscellaneous calculations of logarithms, geometrical problems, notes on optics, etc.
Add MS 4410 : PELL PAPERS. Vol. IV (ff. 226). Papers relating to the finding of Easter in connection with his pamphlet printed in 1664, Easter…
Add MS 4411 : PELL PAPERS. Vol. V (ff. 412). Papers relating to his Tabula numerorum quadratorum decies millium, 1672, tables of logarithms,…
Add MS 4412 : PELL PAPERS. Vol. VI (ff. 373). Tables of logarithms, and miscellaneous geometrical problems and calculations.includes:ff. 1-6…
Add MS 4413 : PELL PAPERS. Vol. VII (ff. 429). Miscellaneous geometrical calculations, tables of logarithms, extracts from the works of…
Add MS 4414 : PELL PAPERS. Vol. VIII (ff. 255). The contents include:- (a) papers relating to An Introduction to Algebra translated ... by…
Add MS 4415 : PELL PAPERS. Vol. IX (ff. i + 330). Various works and extracts, partly in Pell's autograph, among them being:-(a) 'De…
Add MS 4416 : PELL PAPERS. Vol. X (ff. 305). Extracts from astronomical works, including 'The Everlasting Tables of Heavenly Motions ... composed…
Add MS 4417 : PELL PAPERS. Vol. Xl (ff. 459). Problems, exercises and extracts from the works of Diophantus Alexandrinus, Franciscus Vieta,…
Add MS 4418 : PELL PAPERS. Vol. XII (ff. i+359). Geometrical, arithmetical and chronological tables and problems. Among them are:- (a) Note on…
Add MS 4419 : PELL PAPERS. Vol. XIII (ff. i + 341). Miscellaneous geometrical and trigonometrical problems, calculations, and extracts from the…
Add MS 4420 : PELL PAPERS. Vol. XIV (ff. i + 219). Trigonometrical and algebraical problems and calculations; Pell's 'Logistica, or the Art…
Add MS 4421 : Catalogue of Greek books at Westminster
Add MS 4422-4423 : PELL PAPERS. Tables of logarithms, and the solution of trigonometrical or geometrical problems, relating especially to…
Add MS 4424 : PELL PAPERS. Vol. XVIII (ff. i + 458). The contents include tables, etc., of sines, and other trigonometrical problems and notes on…
Add MS 4425-4429 : PELL PAPERS. Solutions of various trigonometrical, optical, and philosophical problems, with tables of logarithms, etc., and…
Add MS 4430 : PELL PAPERS. Vol. XXIV (ff. 139). Problems and tables of logarithms, including some problems 'Dictated to George Schwarts at his…
Add MS 4431 : PELL PAPERS. Vol. XXIV (ff. 558). A miscellaneous collection of treatises, of Pell's notes on them, problems, tables of logarithms,…
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- 032-002109547[0169]/036-002109891
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- Record Type (Level):
- Series
- Extent:
- 25 items
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Dutch
English
French
German
Italian
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1609
- End Date:
- 1678
- Date Range:
- [1609-1678]
- Era:
- CE
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- Names:
- Pell, John, mathematician and diplomatist, 1611-1685