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R./18.16/7
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Proof of an obituary of Richard Sheepshanks and miscellaneous cuttings mathematics, natural philosophy, and eclipses
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- 1830-1860, [18--] (Creation)
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1 folded sheet, 9 single sheets
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The various cuttings include an article on the Chair of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh with an article from the Madras Government Gazette on Hindu algebra dated 15 July 1830; a cutting pasted on to the first two pages of a letter to Whewell sent by an anonymous correspondent concerning the work of American mathematicians dated March 1843; another, a physics problem signed in manuscript by James Walters Jun., 25 Feb. 1848; a description of the "Astronomical expedition to North Spain" in the Times, July 1860, and two other articles about solar eclipses.
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Accompanied by a list of contents by Isaac Todhunter.