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Material relating to the work of Prof. G.E. Moore and Dr. Ludwig Wittgenstein, including notes taken during their lectures and notes on Wittgenstein's 'Blue' and 'Brown' books.

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(1) Annotationes ex Toleto', beginning 'De scientiarum et artium divisione. Omnis scientia ab Aristotele 2 Meta. Cap. 1 in specuativam et practicam distinguitur'; Cardinal Tolet's commentaries on Aristotle's Logic were published in 1596; (2) 'Ex Keckermanno de voce', consisting of an abstract of the first 17 chapters of Keckermann's first book of 'Systema logicum' ('Opera', tom. i, pp. 553-625, 1614).

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Early notebooks, notes for Cook's lectures, and material relating to Theocritus.

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The collection includes manuscripts and typescripts of notes and lectures, an album of cuttings of early published articles, typescript pieces, and some letters received from journal editors.

Scope and Contents (1) Caesar Cremoninus, ‘De maximo et minimo tractatus’; (2) a list of ‘Tractatus doctissimi Cesaris Cremonini qui passim habentur in scholâ Patavinâ’; (3) 19 lectures on ‘Digressio Averrois de intellectu possibili. Commentatione quinta in tertium librum [Aristotelis] de animâ, et commista est definitio intellectus materialis’; (4) ‘Tractatus de principio individuationis’, in two lectures; (5) 22 lectures on ‘Digressio Averrois commento trigesimo sexto in librum tertium Aristotelis de...

Scope and Contents (1) ‘Commentarii in octo libros Physicorum Aristotelis’ (302 leaves), beginning ‘Prætermittemus et excellentiam ...’; (2) ‘Commentarii in libros Aristotelis de cœlo’ (30 leaves); (3) Commentarii in duos libros de generatione et corruptione’ (35 leaves); (4) ‘Commentarii in libros de anima’ (90 leaves); ‘Commentarii in omnes libros metaphysicorum Aristotelis’ (37 leaves), ending ‘... ab ipso rerum authore abducamur. Cornelius Lery’. The tracts are separately paged. At the end of the volume is...

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'In secundum librum rhetoricæ Aristotelis commentariolus' by John Hardinge. Prefixed is a dedication by Hardinge, 'Patrono suo colendissimo dno dri Langton Coll. Magd. præsidi'; W. Langton was president of Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1610 to 1626.

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'Commentaria excellentissimi D. D. Cæsaris Cremonini centensis, Patavii primo loco philosophiam profitentis, in secundo Aristotelis de Anima': commentary on Aristotle's 'De anima', book 2 according to the Latin division. See also MSS Dd.05.28 and Dd.12.16.

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Begins 'Physica incipientium. Sive principia Cartesiana Tyronum captui accommodata'. The work is in three books and appears not to be a work of Descartes but of Jonathan Comer. See also MS Dd.12.33.

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Drafts of lectures delivered by Cornford as part of his regular Tripos teaching at Cambridge, published articles, correspondence between Cornford and his protégé Guthrie, later correspondence between Cornford's widow Frances and Gutherie and some biographical material.

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Michael Young was a student on the Philosophy MA course at Birkbeck, 1989-90.

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Contains 179 folios: a series of 32 philosophical disputations, nos 1-25 on the soul (fos 4-133) and nos 26-32 on Aristotle's Metaphysics (fos 134-167). On fos 169-173 is an analytical table of the series, imperfect at the end. Attached to fo. 178 is a broadside, Assertiones ex universa philosophia decerptae, by John Ducket (Lagos, 1655).

Scope and Contents Correspondence, mostly addressed to Dorothy Moore but including some to G. E. Moore, Timothy Moore and Perry Moore. Subjects include the education of Timothy and Nicholas Moore, and condolences on the death of G. E. Moore. 1. Charlie Dunbar Broad to Dorothy Moore; Cambridge, 25 October 1958.2. Thorold Francis Coade to Dorothy Moore; Blandford, 30 May 1935.3. William Burnlee Curry to Dorothy Moore; Dartington Hall, 20 March 1934.4. William Burnlee Curry to...

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Contains notes and extracts on philosophy, astronomy, natural history and medicine. fo. 2: 'Edmundus Lëus 1607'.

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There are prefixed a lithographed portrait of Swedenborg, and drawings in pencil of his abode near Stockholm, also his arms tricked in pencil.

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In Latin and Greek.

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Folder of further philosophical work; material appears to be taken from previous order and gathered in this separate set by past researchers

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MS.Add.8875 is comprised of Moore's philosophical papers, and now forms sections 10-16. It includes contemporary notes of Wittgenstein's lectures, the autographs of his 1899 London lectures, and papers for the Moral Sciences Club.

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MS.Add.8330 contains Moore's personal and family papers, and his correspondence (sections 1-9), as well as books from his library (section 17).

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Lectures on Greek philosophy delivered by Henry Jackson, Michaelmas term, 1873, 154 folios. The text is on the recto. On the verso are headings and references.

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This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

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This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Scope and Contents 'A Course of Philosophical Lectures by Tho. Whiteside A.M', 183 folios. The lectures are on mechanics. No Thomas Whiteside appears among the published lists of graduates of any university in the British Isles. This is evidently a mistake for John Whiteside (i.e. Tho. for Jho), who was giving such lectures in the early 18th century (see R.T. Gunther, Early science in Oxford, Vol. I). On fo. 1: 'Jno. Browne'. On the front cover are the words 'Mr. Browne', and on the back cover what appears to...