Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- OVERTURE: NEWTON'S PUBLISHED WORK ON THE CALCULUS OF FLUXIONS
- PART I THE EARLY PERIOD
- PART II THE MIDDLE PERIOD
- PART III THE REFORM
- CONCLUSION
- APPENDIX A TABLES OF CONTENTS OF FLUXIONARY TEXTBOOKS
- APPENDIX B PRICE LIST OF MATHEMATICAL BOOKS PRINTED FOR JOHN NOURSE
- APPENDIX C CHAIRS IN THE UNIVERSITIES
- APPENDIX D MILITARY ACADEMIES
- APPENDIX E SUBJECT INDEX OF PRIMARY LITERATURE
- APPENDIX F MANUSCRIPT SOURCES
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
APPENDIX F - MANUSCRIPT SOURCES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- OVERTURE: NEWTON'S PUBLISHED WORK ON THE CALCULUS OF FLUXIONS
- PART I THE EARLY PERIOD
- PART II THE MIDDLE PERIOD
- PART III THE REFORM
- CONCLUSION
- APPENDIX A TABLES OF CONTENTS OF FLUXIONARY TEXTBOOKS
- APPENDIX B PRICE LIST OF MATHEMATICAL BOOKS PRINTED FOR JOHN NOURSE
- APPENDIX C CHAIRS IN THE UNIVERSITIES
- APPENDIX D MILITARY ACADEMIES
- APPENDIX E SUBJECT INDEX OF PRIMARY LITERATURE
- APPENDIX F MANUSCRIPT SOURCES
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Cambridge University Library
MS Add 6312: Nicholas Saunderson's lectures on tides, capillary tubes, barometer, vapours, rain, hail, snow, figure of the Earth, thunder and lightening, winds, circulation of sap, rainbow, heat and cold, sound, chronology, astronomy, the horizontal Moon (dated 1737).
MS Add 2977: Nicholas Saunderson's lectures on hydrostatics, sound, optics, mechanics, astronomy, the tides, chronology, the horizontal Moon, heat and cold.
MS Add 589: Nicholas Saunderson's lectures on hydrostatics, sound, optics, mechanics, astronomy, the tides, chronology (dated 1727–9).
MS Add 3444: first part of Nicholas Saunderson's Method of Fluxions (dated 1738).
Gonville and Caius College Library (Cambridge)
MS Add 723/749: John Micklebourgh's mathematical exercise book (1720s).
Watson Library (University College, London)
MSS Graves 3–5: James Bradley's sketch of Oxford lectures
MS Add 243: Nicholas Saunderson's lectures on hydrostatics, the tides, sound, optics, mechanics, astronomy, the rainbow, chronology (dated 1730).
MS Graves 23(2): letters to John Nourse from authors (John Stewart, John Colson, John Robertson, John Landen, William Emerson, Hugh Hamilton, Francis Holliday, Robert Heath, Robert Thorp, Nevil Maskelyne).
Bodleian Library (Oxford)
MS Rigaud 3–4: Nicholas Saunderson's lectures.
MS Radcliffe Trust: Thomas Hornsby Oxford lectures.
Royal Society Library (London)
MS LBC.16,412,426,456: Robert Simson's letters.
British Library (London)
MS Add Eg.834: Nicholas Saunderson's lectures.
MS Royal 487.b. 17: first part of Nicholas Saunderson's Method of Fluxions.
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- The Development of Newtonian Calculus in Britain, 1700–1800 , pp. 165 - 166Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989