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La trigonometrica geometrica - logarithmica del triangulo rectilineo
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Manuscripts
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Two manuscript volumes on theoretical and practical geometry. Both volumes are illustrated with fine pen and ink geometric diagrams for theoretical or practical application of geometrical principles. Many diagrams are shaded or colored. Additional watercolor drawings of flowers and birds are present at the end problems. The first volume contains the origin and function of geometry and the history and uses of geometry. The main body of the first volume considers definitions of geometry with Euclidean subjects and 40 problems; Methods for tracing figures, angles, lines on a terrain with 31 problems; Practice of geometry; Treatise of development of bodies and the geometrical elevation with 21 problems, and a section on Treatise of trigonometry and practice with 5 propositions and corollaries. The second volume is on practical geometry and measuring, with numerous problems.
mssHM 82555
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This manuscript, which has no known author and is written in Latin, contains information about right triangles. There are several diagrams and one chart. The watermark on the paper is obscured but is similar to watermark #526 (post or pillar) in W. A. Churchill's Watermarks in paper in the XVII and XVIII centuries (1935) which puts it to the late 17th century and makes it British.
mssHM 75977
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Book on trigonometry; begins with fundamental descriptions, illustrations and explanations of triangles i.e. right angles, areas, etc.; latter sections includes complex formulas, and their relation to land surveying; formulas written in both Japanese/Chinese characters and Roman alphabet/numerals. In Japanese.
mssHM 81205
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Manuscript by Daniel Hallett that includes sets of problems and proofs used for sailing directions and calculations, using geometry, trigonometry and dialing (text and diagrams). The volume includes accounting information, also belonging to Daniel Hallett, and one hand-colored map from England to Cape Verde Islands.
mssHM 72089
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This notebook contains mathematics notes taken by an unknown student at Glasgow College from 1815 to 1818 for Professor Miller's class. It includes diagrams and notes on algebra, logarithms, trigonometry, as well as Euclid's and Euler's mathematical principles.
mssHM 72759
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The eight items include three handwritten letters and five printed items. Two of the letters are by Causans (letters are addressed to Marquise de Pompadour and an unknown woman); the third is addressed to him. The printed items are about geometry and Causans' publication Quadrature du cercle. All of the items are in French.
mssHM 75080-75087