Cotes, Roger, 1682 - 1716 (mathematician and astronomer)
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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
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Analysis of Cotes' 'Scholium generale', 1756
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 4/241
Scope and Contents
An analysis by Israel Lyons of the problems in the 'Scholium Generale of Cotes Harmonia Mensurum'.
Dates:
1756
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Analysis of Cotes' 'Scholium Generale', 1756
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 4/243
Scope and Contents
An analysis by Israel Lyons of the construction in Roger Cotes' 'Scholium Generale', with an index to fourteen problems.
Dates:
1756
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Booklet on analytic geometry, 1759 - 1760
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 4/263
Scope and Contents
A booklet on analytical geometry dealing with Roger Cotes' theorem and including the centre of oscillation of an ellipse. The sections are dated April 1759 to March 1760.
Dates:
1759 - 1760
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Computations, 1789 - 1791
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 4/192
Scope and Contents
Computations and equations, with properties of lines about the circle, fluxions, hyperbolae, Cotes' Theorem and spherical triangles.
Dates:
1789 - 1791
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Papers on astronomy, physics and mathematics, 1754
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 4/298
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous astronomical, physical and mathematical topics, including sections on the following:1. Primary planets (23 remarks); comet tails (4 points); James Bradley's parallax: tides; centripetal forces (misbound); lunar apsides and inequalities; projectiles in a parabola (19 observations); centripetal forces (16 rules); cycloid (16 statements); capillary tubes, written in Latin; infinites (9 characteristics); propositions from Newton's 'Principia'; primary rainbows; velocity as...
Dates:
1754
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Treatise of fluxions, 1758
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 4/242
Scope and Contents
The original manuscript of Israel Lyons' 'Treatise of Fluxions', divided into twelve sections.1. The direct method of fluxions: i. Definitions; ii. Fluxions of the sum and differences of quantities; iii. Fluxions of rectangles and powers; iv. To find the relation of the fluxion from the relation of the fluents; v. Of 2nd, 3rd and 4th fluxions.2. The inverse method of fluxions: i. Of the fluents of simple quantities; ii. Newton's binomial theorem demonstrated; iii. Demoivre's...
Dates:
1758
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).