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Edmund Hopkinson: Notes on Nicholas Saunderson's Lectures
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9752
Scope and Contents
Covers mechanicks, hydrostaticks, pneumaticks, sounds, opticks, the rainbow, astronomy and tides.
Dates:
1723
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Nicholas Saunderson: A Treatise of Fluxions
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3444
Scope and Contents
fo. 5: shorthand note in pencil; fo. 5v: diagram; fo. 1: 'John Hall, Bought Clerk's Sale 1833.' Text written on every other leaf, alternate leaves either carrying diagrams or left blank. Printed as pp. vii-128 of Saunderson's Method of Fluxions, London, 1756.
Dates:
1738
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Nicholas Saunderson: Lectures
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2977
Scope and Contents
Notes on Sanderson's lectures in the hand of William Haswell. Includes: lectures on hydrostatics, sounds, optics (with others), mechanics, astronomy, tides, technical chronology, and the doctrine of heat and cold. With (fo. 128) copy of letter from James Bate to Hans Deveille, 3 Jan. 1726
Dates:
1725 (Circa)
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Nicholas Saunderson: Lectures
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6312
Scope and Contents
A series of lectures on the tides and other scientific subjects delivered by Professor Saunderson, 125 folios. On fo. iv is an extract relating to Horace Walpole and Saunderson. The versos are mostly blank, but have occasional diagrams. (Fo. iv) 'T. Aynscough, Coll. Joh. Cant., 1737'; (fo. 1) 'Lectures on the Tides'; (fo. 9) 'Of the Ascent and Suspension of Liquors in Capillary Tubes'; (fo. 19) 'Of the Ascent and Suspension of Mercury in the Barometer'; (fo. 24) 'Of the Prolate Sphaeroidical...
Dates:
1737
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Nicholas Saunderson: MS notes on his lectures on Fluxions
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9772
Dates:
1730-1750 (Circa)
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