Sharp, Abraham, 1651-1742 (mathematician and scientific instrument maker)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1651 - 1742
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
File
Abraham Sharp: Table of areas of the Segments of a Circle; Tables of Logarithms; Autograph Letters, 9 January 1704-30 January 1720
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/13/1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This category contains the manuscript letters in the Macclesfield collection excluding the Newton holographs and letters to Newton. It also contains a few other items which were bound alongside these letters.
Dates:
9 January 1704-30 January 1720
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/macclesfield/1
Item
Draft of a Letter from Edmund Halley to Abraham Sharp, 1705-23 April 1705 (Draft undated - this is the date of the final version of the letter.)
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/13/6/90
Scope and Contents
In Life and Correspondence of Abraham Sharp, William Cudworth (London, 1889), p.33, there is a facsimile of variant version of this letter.
Dates:
1705-23 April 1705 (Draft undated - this is the date of the final version of the letter.)
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/macclesfield/1