| Description | Manuscript volume, 19th century, by Thomas Beverley, 'Descriptions of an improved two feet navigation and lunar observation scale with its application to the most useful branches of practical mathematics, navigation and nautical astronomy', prefixed by a letter of Beverley, dated 29 Jun 1833 and written from Dyer Street, Cirencester. |
| AdminHistory | Thomas Beverley (1795-1834), mathematician and astronomer, of Brampton, near Scarborough, died at Cirencester in 1834, aged 39. He was sometime mathematics editor of the Yorkshire Courant and for some years he was also Master of the Nautical and Mathematical Academy at Brampton. He married Mary Allanson, who died in 1830. None of their three children survived infancy. His papers were collected by his nephew, John Bravender, who published Beverley's The mariner's latitude and longitude ready-computer ... at Cirencester in 1836. |
| CustodialHistory | The manuscript formed part of the library of John Thomas Graves (1806-1870), mathematician and Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London, whose collection included manuscripts dating from the 15th to the 19th century, relating mainly to mathematics. Formerly Graves 1107. |