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Manuscripts/MS Add.9597 contains:
1 Items pertaining to the collection itself
2 Papers of Sir Isaac Newton
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4 Algebra
5 Arithmetic
6 Astronomy
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The Macclesfield Collection

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Reference MS Add.9597/14
Covering Dates c 1710-c 1750
Index Terms
Navigation (Science)
Manuscripts/MS Add.9597/14 contains:
1 Plain Sailing. Various problems, some with a variety of solutions: "By Mercator's" "By Middle Latitude" "By Parallel" and "By Traverse Table." Some left unfinished.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.23 [quarto]; paper.
c 1710-c 1749
2 Of the Variation of the Nautical Compass. Problems and examples associated with guaging a compass's variation by observing the sun.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.13 [mixed]; paper.
c 1710-c 1749
3 Continuation of Journal. Journal in unknown hand charting European travels.
ff.91 [quarto]; paper.
19 January 1745-June 1746
4 "The Degrees Minutes & seconds corresponding to the several entyre ninety-sixth part of the Portable Quadrant of a foot Radius" and other notes.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.10 [mixed]; paper.
c 1710-c 1749
5 Log Book No. 1.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.18 [octavo]; paper.
c 1745
6 Log Book.
ff.25 [quarto]; paper.
c 1733-c 1750
7 Mercator's Sailing, Middle Latitude Sailing, Plain Sailing. Similar content to Add. MS 9597/14/1. Same hand as Add. MS 9597/14/6.
ff.3 [quarto]; paper.
c 1710-c 1749
8 Of Mercator's Sailing. Draft treatise.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.33 [mixed]; paper.
c 1710-c 1749

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