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A treatise of fluxions : manuscript, [ca. 1725] / by N. Sanderson.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 209
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Sanderson, Nicolas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematics--Early works to 1800.
- Mathematics.
- Genre:
- Codices.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Manuscripts, English.
- Penn Provenance:
- Provenance: E. Otis Kendall.
- Physical Description:
- 1 v. (66 leaves, 8 folded leaves) : paper, illustrations ; 20 cm
- Other Title:
- Mathematical lectures.
- Place of Publication:
- [ca. 1725] /
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Notes:
- Title and attribution from title page, f. [i]. Another title page[?] or announcement bound in at the end reads: Mathematical Lectures by Nicolas Sanderson LLD, Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge, containing the Doctrine of the Sphere & Cylender, of Ratio's, of Incommensurables, Plain Trigonometry, and a Supplement to Pardies Geometry.
- Date from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue.
- Written in one hand.
- Pagination: [ii] ff., pp. 1-129, [iii] ff., the last blank.
- Illustrated with diagrams on 8 folded leaves [unnumbered pages] labelled Table I-VIII.
- Binding: modern.
- Cited in:
- Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 53 (Ms. English 23).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 209
- OCLC:
- 63613480
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