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Geometry, Elemental

 Subject
Subject Source: Nahste

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Charta 4 fol. Notae ad loca quaedam difficiliora Geom: Cartesianae, October 1696

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [3]
Scope and Contents

Commentary on Schooten's 1659 edition of Descartes' "Geometria".

Dates: October 1696

Diophanti Liber Secundis, c1703

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [13]
Scope and Contents

Reading notes from Diophantus.

Dates: c1703

Ex Carolo Renaldinio, 4 December 1680

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [8]
Scope and Contents

Analysis of Renaldini's treatment of curves.

Dates: 4 December 1680

Ex Renaldinis de Maximis et Minimis, c1696

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [5]
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Analysis of Renaldini's treatment of maximi and minimi, itself a reworking of Fermat.

Four pages of Descart on curves are bound with this document.

Dates: c1696

Gauging Epitomized, 1669

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [14]
Scope and Contents

A compilation of tables for four geometrical methods of calculating the volume of wine contained in a cask.

Dates: 1669

Pneumatics, Gunpowder, c1780-c1802

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Identifier: Coll-204/8
Scope and Contents Notes, in English and occasional Russian, on the physics of air, principally pressure differentials and sound propagation. Topics include a lengthy discussion of the function and gross anatomy of the ear, barometrical measurement of height; published chart of comparative altitudes of famous mountain peaks, and the overall constitution of the atmosphere. The second half of the volume covers ballistics, mostly: diagrams, calculations, and records of artillery trials. A short, unrelated section...
Dates: c1780-c1802

Regle de Monsr Frenicle des trouver triangles rectangles ..., 1681

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [11]
Scope and Contents

The first part of a treatise on geometry from the Academie Royale des Sciences.

Dates: 1681

Seconde partie De triangles rectangles en Nombres par Monsieur Frenicle, 1681

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [10]
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The second part of a treatise on geometry from the Academie Royale des Sciences.

Dates: 1681

Solutio Probl: ... de angulis per Algebram vulgarem, c1696

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [4]
Scope and Contents

Problems in classical geometry, including one worked out by "D. de la Hire".

Dates: c1696

Treatises, c1780-c1802

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Identifier: Coll-204/7
Scope and Contents

Illustrated print and manuscript treatises on the geometry of motion.

Dates: c1780-c1802