| Title |
Arithmetic |
| Reference |
MS Add.9597/5 |
| Covering Dates |
c 1650-c 1750 |
|
| Index Terms |
| Arithmetic |
| Manuscripts/MS Add.9597/5 contains: |
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1
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Diophantus - Arithmetica. A manuscript copy of the Arithmetica, with Pell's annotations in the wide margins.
Creator: Pell, John, 1611-1685, mathematician.
pp.338 [quarto]; paper. |
c 1650-c 1670 |
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2
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Arithmetica Elementa.
ff.32 [octavo]; paper. |
c 1700-c 1750 |
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3
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Papers of John Colson on Arithmetic. Bound in blue boards:. f. 1 - Blank;. ff.2-4 - Letter from John Colson to William Jones;. f.5 - Blank;. ff.6-9 - A Compendious Method for the Multiplication of large Numbers, especially Decimal Fractions and other Incompleat Numbers, and for continuing the Product to any number of places required. ff.10-15 - A Short Accoung of Negative-affirmative Arithmetick. ff.16-23 (different hand) - "Sect 1. The Introduction containing some general Inquirys into the nature of Arithmetick, its Several Species & Operations.".
Creator: Colson, John, 1680-1760, mathematician and translator.
ff.24 [folio]; paper. |
? 1700-? 1760 |
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4
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Of Indeterminate Problems. Copied (or translated?) from "vol. 7, p.46" of a printed edition of Euler.
ff.24 [quarto]; paper. |
? 1700-? 1750 |
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5
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Tables of Division.
ff.28 [quarto]; paper. |
? 1700-? 1750 |
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6
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Compendium of Arithmetick.
ff.52 [octavo]; paper. |
? 1700-? 1750 |
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7
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Of Irreducible Fractions. This item consists of five variant copies of an essay entitled "Of Irreducible Fractions.".
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.18 [quarto]; paper. |
c 1710-c 1749 |
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8
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The Doctrine of Differences.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper. |
c 1710-c 1749 |
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9
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A Table of 1st and 2nd Differences.
ff.2 [folio]; paper. |
c 1700-c 1750 |
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10
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On Chances of the Dice in Hazard.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.4 [folio]; paper. |
c 1710-c 1749 |
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11
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To Find the Divisors of Numbers.
ff.8 [long octavo]; paper. |
? 1700-? 1750 |
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12
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To find whether any Number greater than 100 & less than 100000 be a prime or not & by what primes divisible.
ff.10 [folio]; paper. |
? 1700-? 1750 |
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13
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Arithmetic Questions.
ff.98 [quarto]; paper. |
? 1700-? 1750 |
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14
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Mr Jones's Method of any quantity, or an infinite series, by another infinite series, so as to see the law of continuation of the quotient being of good use in many cases.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.5 [quarto]; paper. |
c 1710-c 1749 |
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15
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Vulgar and Decimal Fractions.
ff.11 [octavo]; paper. |
? 1700-? 1750 |
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16
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Rules to find the Vulgar fractions that finite Decimals, recurring Decimals & mixed Decimals arise from (Book 1st of Heathcote).
ff.66 [folio]; paper. |
1794 |
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17
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Rules to find the Vulgar fractions that finite Decimals, recurring Decimals & mixed Decimals arise from (Book 2nd of Heathcote).
ff.14 [folio]; paper. |
1794 |
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18
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Oughtred Of Arithmetic. Manuscript copy of the opening chapters of William Oughtred, "Clavis Mathematicae" (London, 1631.).
ff.32 [quarto]; paper. |
? 1700-? 1750 |
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19
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Treatise on the Number Nine. Manuscript copy of essay in "Nouvelles de la Republique des Lettres," September 1685.
ff.7 [octavo]; paper. |
? 1700-? 1750 |
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20
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Of Divisors. Rough notes on divisors.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.8 [mixed]; paper. |
c 1710-c 1749 |
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21
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Compendium Arithmeticae. Franz Huberti published a book under this title in 1751.
ff.58 [octavo]; paper. |
c 1750 |
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22
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Rule of Proportion. This is possibly part of the MS referred to in Ward's "The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College":. "These, which follow, are in the hands of Mr Jones. 1... 2... 3. And English treatise of common arithmetic, folio. In this are contained not only the vulgar rules, but also the manner of extracting the square and cube roots, with the rules of proportion, allegation, arithmetical and geometrical progression.".
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.109 [mixed]; paper. |
c 1710-c 1749 |
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23
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Figurate Arithmetick. Draft of treatise.
Creator: Collins, John, 1626-1683, mathematician and scientific administrator.
ff.15 [folio]; paper. |
c 1650-c 1683 |
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24
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Arithmetick Progression.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.7 [octavo]; paper. |
c 1710-c 1749 |
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25
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Arithmetick. Possibly in the hand of one of Jones's pupils.
ff.18 [quarto]; paper. |
c 1710-c 1749 |
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26
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Arithmetick of Infinity. Possibly in the hand of one of Jones's pupils.
ff.32; paper. |
c 1710-c 1749 |
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27
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Arithmetic (Dutch).
ff.52 [quarto]; paper. |
? 1700-? 1750 |
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