Stirling, James, 1692-1770 (Scottish mathematician)
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Autograph letter from Colin Maclaurin comprising a secretarial copy of an English translation of a letter from Maupertuis to James Bradley, 4 February 1737 [Old Style, i.e. 1738]
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Identifier: Coll-2911/7
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Autograph letter from Colin Maclaurin addressed to James Stirling "at Leadhills", dated 4 February 1737 [Old Style, i.e. 1738], comprising a secretarial copy of an English translation of a letter from Maupertuis to James Bradley, Paris 27 September 1737, announcing the return of the French expedition to Lapland, 1736-37, and describing in detail the findings of the expedition, with Maclaurin's autograph covering note to verso of conjugate leaf, with apostscript inviting Stirling to join a...
Dates:
4 February 1737 [Old Style, i.e. 1738]
Autograph letter signed from Colin Maclaurin discusses the French expedition to Peru, 6 December 1740
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Identifier: Coll-2911/11
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Autograph letter signed from Colin Maclaurin addressed to James Stirling "at Leadhills", dated 6 December 1740, discussing the French expedition to Peru ("Mr Short writes that an unlucky accident has happened to the French mathematicians in Peru. It seems they were shewing some French gallantry to the natives’ wives, who have murdered their servants, destroyed their instruments and burn’t their papers"), and Short's observation of the satellite of Venus before summarising "all that I have...
Dates:
6 December 1740