Mathematics
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:
Series
Tract on the History of Fluxions, c 1700-c 1749
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3960.2: 1-24
Scope and Contents
Copy of a tract probably by William Jones.
Dates:
c 1700-c 1749
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/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
File
Traitté d'arithmetique, Seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.10.38
Scope and Contents
The first 40 pages are occupied with the statement of the rules of arithmetic; ff. 25-30 contain questions in mathematics, and rules for the extraction of the cube root, and also of the square root by approximation; ff. 31-35 relate to specific gravity. The remainder is blank, except that on the last page is a recipe for a 'Baume pour toute sort de blessures'.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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).
Series
Transcript of a Tract on Fluxions said to have been written by Newton, November 1666
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3960.1: 1-61
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
Papers on infinite series, curves and fluxions, in the hands of Newton and two others.
Dates:
November 1666
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/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Fonds
Treatise on Algebra and Miscellaneous Unrelated Material, c 1670
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3995
Scope and Contents
In Newton's and one other hand.
Dates:
c 1670
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/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
File
Treatise on arithmetic, Late sixteenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.05.24
Scope and Contents
'A treatise on the higher rules of arithmetic', beginning at the rule of division, and with a long chapter on cossic numbers. There is also a system for calculating on the hands; superscribed 'Invent ao 1588'.
Dates:
Late sixteenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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).
Series
Trigonometria succincte proposita et nova methodo demonstrata, c 1700
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3959.4: 24-32
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
Notes and papers regarding algebra and trigonometry.
Dates:
c 1700
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/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Series
Unpublished Appendix to 'methodus': Problem IX, 1671
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3960.4: 33-48
Scope and Contents
Follows on from Add. 3960.14: 110, line 27.
Dates:
1671
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/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.