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Add. MS c/88/16
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Letter from Augustus De Morgan
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- 18 Oct. 1860 (Creation)
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41 Chalcot Villas, Adelaide Road NW - Has two points to make: 1: the drinking song is Ptolemaic ['this bottle's the sun of our table, how the bottle revolves round the table"] and recalls the Duke of Sussex singing it at a dinner party in 1826. 2: Barrow's method is pretty but does not show the full merit of Peter Metius' [Adriaan Anthonisz'] result. Explains why he thinks the phrasing of 1620 indicates that he did not publish and will give him the reference from his son Adrian Metius' book; will look further at Barrow: "I am not sure that Barrow is not reasoning in, as well as on, a circle".
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- Morgan, Augustus De (1806-1871), mathematician and historian (Subject)
- Augustus Frederick (1773–1843) Prince, Duke of Sussex, son of George III (Subject)
- Barrow, Isaac (1630-1677), mathematician and theologian (Subject)
- Anthonisz, Adriaan (1527-1607) mathematician (Subject)
- Adriaanszoon, Adriaan (1571-1635) geometer and astronomer, known as 'Metius' (Subject)