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Oughtred, William, ? 1575-1660 (mathematician)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: ? 1575 - 1660

Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:

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 Item

Letter from William Rushworth to William Oughtred, 1633 - 1637

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/13/5/229
Scope and Contents

Rushworth corresponded with Oughtred under the name of Robinson.

Dates: 1633 - 1637
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Please enquire at the Manuscripts Reading Room desk if you would like to view items from the Macclesfield Collection.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.9597, The Macclesfield Collection / Letters / Letters and Papers A-W
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Letter from William Rushworth to William Oughtred, 1633 - 1637

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/13/5/230
Scope and Contents

Rushworth corresponded with Oughtred under the name of Robinson.

Dates: 1633 - 1637
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Please enquire at the Manuscripts Reading Room desk if you would like to view items from the Macclesfield Collection.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.9597, The Macclesfield Collection / Letters / Letters and Papers A-W
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Letter from William Rushworth to William Oughtred, 2 July 1636

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/13/5/231-232
Scope and Contents

Rushworth corresponded with Oughtred under the name of Robinson.

Dates: 2 July 1636
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Please enquire at the Manuscripts Reading Room desk if you would like to view items from the Macclesfield Collection.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.9597, The Macclesfield Collection / Letters / Letters and Papers A-W
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Letter from William Rushworth to William Oughtred, with separate biographical note on Rushworth, 1633 - 1637

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/13/5/228
Scope and Contents

Rushworth corresponded with Oughtred under the name of Robinson.

Dates: 1633 - 1637
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Please enquire at the Manuscripts Reading Room desk if you would like to view items from the Macclesfield Collection.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.9597, The Macclesfield Collection / Letters / Letters and Papers A-W
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Letter to William Oughtred with illegible signature, possibly 'Newark' or 'N Ewart', 20 July 1639

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/13/5/214
Scope and Contents From the File:

This is an album consisting primarily of holograph letters to and from 17th and 18th century scientists, including Collins, Oughtred, Cavendish, Briggs, Fermat, Oldenburg, Halley, Boyle, Wallis and others. There are also some copy letters and other scientific papers.

Dates: 20 July 1639
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Please enquire at the Manuscripts Reading Room desk if you would like to view items from the Macclesfield Collection.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.9597, The Macclesfield Collection / Letters / Letters and Papers A-W
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Observations sent with letter from Gascoigne to Oughtred, c February 1641 [9597/13/5/104-107], c February 1641

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/13/5/108-109
Scope and Contents From the File:

This is an album consisting primarily of holograph letters to and from 17th and 18th century scientists, including Collins, Oughtred, Cavendish, Briggs, Fermat, Oldenburg, Halley, Boyle, Wallis and others. There are also some copy letters and other scientific papers.

Dates: c February 1641
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Please enquire at the Manuscripts Reading Room desk if you would like to view items from the Macclesfield Collection.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.9597, The Macclesfield Collection / Letters / Letters and Papers A-W
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Of Angular Sections, Oughtred, c 1650-c 1750

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/11/57
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The Macclesfield Collection principally comprises the archives of John Collins (1625-1683) and William Jones (1675-1749). As well as being mathematicians in their own right, both men corresponded with leading scientific figures of their day and so the collection includes autograph material by Isaac Newton, Edmond Halley, Henry Briggs, Roger Cotes, Henry Oldenburg and Robert Hooke.

Dates: c 1650-c 1750
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Please enquire at the Manuscripts Reading Room desk if you would like to view items from the Macclesfield Collection.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.9597, The Macclesfield Collection / Geometry
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Of Astronomy (Oughtred), c 1700-c 1750

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/6/41
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The Macclesfield Collection principally comprises the archives of John Collins (1625-1683) and William Jones (1675-1749). As well as being mathematicians in their own right, both men corresponded with leading scientific figures of their day and so the collection includes autograph material by Isaac Newton, Edmond Halley, Henry Briggs, Roger Cotes, Henry Oldenburg and Robert Hooke.

Dates: c 1700-c 1750
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Please enquire at the Manuscripts Reading Room desk if you would like to view items from the Macclesfield Collection.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.9597, The Macclesfield Collection / Astronomy
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Of Figurative Numbers, c 1650 - c 1750

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/17/22
Scope and Contents

Copy of a treatise by William Oughtred.

Dates: c 1650 - c 1750
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Please enquire at the Manuscripts Reading Room desk if you would like to view items from the Macclesfield Collection.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.9597, The Macclesfield Collection / Miscellaneous Mathematics
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Of Trigonometry, Oughtred, c 1650-c 1750

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/11/58
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The Macclesfield Collection principally comprises the archives of John Collins (1625-1683) and William Jones (1675-1749). As well as being mathematicians in their own right, both men corresponded with leading scientific figures of their day and so the collection includes autograph material by Isaac Newton, Edmond Halley, Henry Briggs, Roger Cotes, Henry Oldenburg and Robert Hooke.

Dates: c 1650-c 1750
Conditions Governing Access: A number of the pages in MS Add.9597/11/58 are very soft and felted, making them fragile to handle. The item requires conservation advice before producing. In particular, the following should be noted: Fragile paper: some page edges soft and felted near head. Turn pages at lower foredge.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.9597, The Macclesfield Collection / Geometry
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Oughtred Of Arithmetic, c 1700 - c 1750

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/5/18
Scope and Contents

Manuscript copy of the opening chapters of William Oughtred, "Clavis Mathematicae" (London, 1631.)

Dates: c 1700 - c 1750
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Please enquire at the Manuscripts Reading Room desk if you would like to view items from the Macclesfield Collection.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.9597, The Macclesfield Collection / Arithmetic
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Oughtred on Levelling, c 1650-c 1750

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/11/59
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The Macclesfield Collection principally comprises the archives of John Collins (1625-1683) and William Jones (1675-1749). As well as being mathematicians in their own right, both men corresponded with leading scientific figures of their day and so the collection includes autograph material by Isaac Newton, Edmond Halley, Henry Briggs, Roger Cotes, Henry Oldenburg and Robert Hooke.

Dates: c 1650-c 1750
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Please enquire at the Manuscripts Reading Room desk if you would like to view items from the Macclesfield Collection.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.9597, The Macclesfield Collection / Geometry
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Oughtred Upon Midorgius' Conics, c 1650-c 1750

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/11/56
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The Macclesfield Collection principally comprises the archives of John Collins (1625-1683) and William Jones (1675-1749). As well as being mathematicians in their own right, both men corresponded with leading scientific figures of their day and so the collection includes autograph material by Isaac Newton, Edmond Halley, Henry Briggs, Roger Cotes, Henry Oldenburg and Robert Hooke.

Dates: c 1650-c 1750
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Please enquire at the Manuscripts Reading Room desk if you would like to view items from the Macclesfield Collection.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.9597, The Macclesfield Collection / Geometry
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Oughtred's Geometrical Tracts, c 1650 - c 1750

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/11/44
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The Macclesfield Collection principally comprises the archives of John Collins (1625-1683) and William Jones (1675-1749). As well as being mathematicians in their own right, both men corresponded with leading scientific figures of their day and so the collection includes autograph material by Isaac Newton, Edmond Halley, Henry Briggs, Roger Cotes, Henry Oldenburg and Robert Hooke.

Dates: c 1650 - c 1750
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Please enquire at the Manuscripts Reading Room desk if you would like to view items from the Macclesfield Collection.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.9597, The Macclesfield Collection / Geometry
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The dedication by John Wallis of his Arithmetica Infinitorum to William Oughtred, 19 July 1655

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/13/5/253-256
Scope and Contents From the File:

This is an album consisting primarily of holograph letters to and from 17th and 18th century scientists, including Collins, Oughtred, Cavendish, Briggs, Fermat, Oldenburg, Halley, Boyle, Wallis and others. There are also some copy letters and other scientific papers.

Dates: 19 July 1655
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Please enquire at the Manuscripts Reading Room desk if you would like to view items from the Macclesfield Collection.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.9597, The Macclesfield Collection / Letters / Letters and Papers A-W
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William Oughtred's Own Copy of a Letter of His to William Price, 6 June 1642

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/13/5/222
Scope and Contents From the File:

This is an album consisting primarily of holograph letters to and from 17th and 18th century scientists, including Collins, Oughtred, Cavendish, Briggs, Fermat, Oldenburg, Halley, Boyle, Wallis and others. There are also some copy letters and other scientific papers.

Dates: 6 June 1642
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Please enquire at the Manuscripts Reading Room desk if you would like to view items from the Macclesfield Collection.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / GBR/0012/MS Add.9597, The Macclesfield Collection / Letters / Letters and Papers A-W
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