Identity area
Reference code
Add. MS a/189/3-6
Title
A. R. Forsyth's notebooks
Date(s)
- [19th-20th cent.] (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
4 vols.
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Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Three notebooks carry Forsyth's name on front and carry titles, two of them "Kinetic Theory of Gases" and the third "The Method of Variations of Parameters applied to the Planetary Theory". A fourth notebook carries no title and lacks its back pages and back cover, but carries the note on the inside front cover, "Maxwell on Radiation, Prob Paper Wed Jan 1 (73, Collapsing strain of cylinder (Rankine)".