Description | Manuscript and typescript. About sending on books by John Babington, the possible value of a volume by Vlacq of <i>Tables de sinus, tangentes, secantes, et de logarithmes</i> to the history of logarithmic tables, with reference to James Henderson's publication, about a skull discovered in Durham, a volume of William Petty's correspondence and its compilation, thanks Pearson for a biography of Laplace, and about the "sacking" of England, with reference to the dispersement of Newton's library. |