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Samuel Vaughan student notebooks, circa 1775-1782.
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Vaughan, Samuel, 1762-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Books and reading--England--History--18th century.
- Books and reading.
- Education--England--History--18th century.
- Education.
- Mathematics--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800.
- Mathematics.
- Mathematics--Study and teaching.
- History.
- England.
- Genre:
- Notebooks.
- Excerpts.
- Lecture notes.
- Account books.
- Manuscripts, English.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly in the collections of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia.
- Sold by Carmen Valentino (Philadelphia), 2008.
- Physical Description:
- 12 volumes + 24 leaves
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1775-1782.
- Summary:
- Collection of notebooks of various sizes belonging to Samuel Vaughan and perhaps other members of the Vaughan family, at least some dating from Samuel Vaughan's studies under Joseph Priestley at the Dissenters' Academy in Warrington. Pedagogical content of the notebooks, many of which are used from both ends and most of which are not filled, include notes from lectures on subjects such as historical chronology, grammar, and elocution; exercises in algebra, geometry, and trigonometry; and excerpts from sermons and historical and literary works. The notebooks also include copies of one letter each to Joseph Priestley and Samuel's brother Benjamin Vaughan. One volume is a receipt book. Loose items laid in the notebooks include copies of poems and a list of books with initials representing members of the Vaughan family next to different titles.
- Contents:
- Volume 1: Mathematics notebook (involution, evolution, algebra, geometry)
- Volume 2: Partial lecture notes on chronology.
- Volume 3: Summary of Hume's History of England and dictionary entries [Samuel Vaughan, November 28, 1775]
- Volume 4: Subjects for composition and literary quotations.
- Volume 5: Excerpts from Summer / James Thomson.
- Volume 6: Receipt book for meat accounts in Cork, 1780-1781.
- Volume 7: Trigonometry notebook in shorthand.
- Volume 8: Summary of Montesquieu's Esprit des loix.
- Volume 9: Excerpt on reason from Magasin des enfans / Madame Leprince de Beaumont.
- Volume 10: Excerpts, lecture notes on elocution, and Swift's Letter to a young gentleman [Samuel Vaughan, December 15, 1775]
- Volume 11: Plane trigonometry notebook [Samuel Vaughan, Warrington]
- Volume 12: Algebra notebook and copies of letters dated 1782 to Joseph Priestley and Benjamin Vaughan.
- OCLC:
- 243868062
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