Janus: Records relating to the administrative and academic officers of the University

University/O.XIV 278 contains:
278*	'Catalogue of papers belonging to the Mathematical Professor at Cambridge 1798'
278.1-14	'Dr Keill's letters and papers'
278.15	Papers deposited by the executors of Professor Sir Joseph Larmor (1857-1942), Lucasian Professor 1903-34
278.A-F	'Papers relative to the foundation etc'

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Records relating to the administrative and academic officers of the University

Title	'Dr Keill's letters and papers'
Reference	O.XIV 278.1-14
Creator	Keill, John
Covering Dates	1700–1798

Content and context

John Keill (1671-1721) was Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford, 1712-21, and an outspoken advocate of Newtonian ideas. He was Treasurer of the Palatines, that is to say treasurer of the fund subscribed for protestant refugees from the Palatinate, 1709-11 and decipherer to Queen Anne, ca 1711-1716.

The letters and papers relate chiefly to interests in natural philosophy and mathematics, but there are also a few on the Palatines and French codes and on family matters.

Comparing the contents with the 1798 catalogue, bundle number 12 is missing.

Index Terms

Keill, John (1671-1721) mathematician and natural philosopher

University/O.XIV 278.1-14 contains:

278.1

Bundle 1: Copies of two letters by Isaac Newton to John Keill.

1714–1718

278.2

Bundle 2: Letters.

1715–1798

278.3

Bundle 3: Letters.

1703–1798

278.4

Bundle 4: Letters.

1719–1798

278.5

Bundle 5: Paper and letters.

1712–1720

278.6

Bundle 6: Papers and letter.

1715–1798

278.7

Bundle 7: Papers.

1700–1798

278.8

Bundle 8: Papers.

1700–1798

278.9

Bundle 9: Papers.

1700–1798

278.10

Bundle 10: Lectures and bill.

1709–1798

278.11

Bundle 11: Paper and letters.

1710–1798

278.13

Bundle 13: 'Isaaci Newtoni methodus fluxionum ubi calculus differentialis Leibnitii et methodus tangentium Barrovii explicantur et exemplis plurimis omis generis illustrantur'. Inside the back cover is an annotation: 'For Dr James Keile at Mr J[oh]n Bannisters Apothecary in Oxon'.
1 booklet of 59 pages in brown paper cover.

1700–1720

278.14

Bundle 14: Papers.

1700–1720