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Add MS 88942/1/213
- Record Id:
- 040-002189163
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002188938
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000822.0x00036d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88942/1/213
- Title:
- Talbot: Notebook ('On some properties of Conic Sections')
- Scope & Content:
- This notebook contains elementary geometry and was started in the period 1864/65 when Talbot purchased a house in 13 Great Stuart Street, Edinburgh. It contains a draft for Talbot's 'Note on Confocal Conic Sections' (1865), and continues Add MS 88942/1/212. Talbot discussed the same subject with the French mathematician Joseph Diez Gergonne in 1822.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002188938
036-002188939
040-002189163 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88942 : The Papers of William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)
Add MS 88942/1 : William Henry Fox Talbot: Notebooks and loose notes
Add MS 88942/1/213 : Talbot: Notebook ('On some properties of Conic Sections') - Hierarchy:
- 032-002188938[0001]/036-002188939[0133]/040-002189163
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88942
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 notebook (20 folios, 23 pages of text)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1864
- End Date:
- 1865
- Date Range:
- [1864]-1865
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Dimensions: 199 mm x 162 mm
- Former External References:
- National Trust accession number 35303
- Administrative Context:
- According to a note at the beginning of the notebook started in: 13 Great Stuart St
- Publications:
- William Henry Fox Talbot, ' Notes on Confocal Conic Sections', Edinburgh Royal Society Transactions, XXIV (1865), 53-57.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Talbot, William Henry Fox, photographer, 1800-1877
- Subjects:
- Mathematics