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Charles Babbage: mathematical and scientific notebooks and papers

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8705

Dates

  • Creation: 1806-1878 (Circa)

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

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).

Extent

8 archive box(es) (8 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Other Finding Aids

Additional Manuscripts Summary Catalogue. There is also a more detailed entry in the main catalogue.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Transferred from the Scientific Periodicals Library, Cambridge, 1989.

Bibliography

For information on other papers of Babbage see The manuscript papers of British scientists 1600-1840 (Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Guides to sources for British history), 1982.
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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