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The Macclesfield Collection

Title Optics
Reference MS Add.9597/15
Covering Dates c 1610-c 1750
Manuscripts/MS Add.9597/15 contains:
1 Newton's Optic Lectures. In the same hand as Add. MS 9597/15/7.
ff.92 [quarto]; paper.
c 1680-c 1750
2 Dioptrica Practica. Treatise on the telescope. Perhaps a MS copy of Carlo Antonio Manzini "L'occhiale all'occhio, dioptrica practica," (Bologna, 1660.).
ff.70 [octavo]; paper.
c 1660-c 1750
3 Dioptrica nova. Bears no obvious relationship to William Molyneux's English treatise entitled "Dioptrica nova, A treatise of dioptricks" (London: Printed for Benjamin Tooke, 1692.).
ff.25 [octavo]; paper.
c 1650-c 1750
4 On the Refraction of the Atmosphere.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.20 [octavo]; paper.
c 1710-c 1749
5 On Optics. Fair copy of a treatise in the hand of William Jones.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.29 [quarto]; paper.
c 1710-c 1749
6 Of the Motion of Light. Various notes and drafts, mostly in the hand of William Jones.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.22 [mixed]; paper.
c 1710-c 1749
7 Of Refractions. In the same hand as Add. MS 9597/15/1. The cover reads: "Optical Papers of Mr Isaac Newton".
ff.9 [octavo]; paper.
c 1680-c 1750
8 Ex promoto Archimede Marini Ghetaldi. Title on spine is: "Oughtred of the Comparison of Bodies and of Perspective".
Creator: Oughtred, William, bap.1575, d.1660, mathematician.
ff.15 [quarto]; paper.
c 1610
9 Optics. Miscellaneous optical papers in the hand of William Jones.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.35 [quarto]; paper.
c 1710-c 1749
10 Opticae Paradoxa. Latin treatise in unknown hand.
ff.52 [quarto]; paper.
c 1650-c 1750
11 Lectures upon Opticks.
ff.36 [quarto]; paper.
c 1650-c 1750

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