Item 644 - Notes on mathematics by a student at Trinity College Cambridge

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Notes on mathematics by a student at Trinity College Cambridge

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  • [1736-1797] (Creation)

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1 vol. with 1 sheet laid in loose

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Purchased from Dean Byass Manuscripts & Rare Books, Feb. 2018.

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Notes, possibly on mathematical lectures given by Nicholas Saunderson and possibly taken by Sheppard Frere, whose bookplate appears at the front of the volume. Includes sections on algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculations in astronomy and latitude and longitude, with references to Isaac Newton, Sherwin's Tables, and Brigg's System of Logarithms. With eight pages of notes at the back in a different hand with drawings and calculations relating to Land service mortars in Laughlinstown Camp, 30 June [17]97. Accompanied by a poem laid in loose written by J.D., identified as Dr Drury, on the death of a favourite pupil, name unknown.

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  • Latin

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    Bookplate of Sheppard Frere, "Coll. Trin. Cantabr., Socio-Commensalis" on front pastedown.

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