| Description | Two manuscript volumes, 1800-1801, containing works of Lucas Oling, including diagrams:
(1) Aanleiding tot de hoogere meetkunde of duidelijk onderricht van de geometrie der kromme lijnen door Lucas Oling (Introduction to geometry or clear instruction on the geometry of curved lines), Leeuwarden, 1801, with a portrait [of Oling?] pasted into the front beneath a paragraph signed J H van Swinden, Amsterdam, Jun 1804 (f 1v)
(2) Mathematische oeffeningen. Algebraische en geometrische oeffeningen (mathematical exercises), Leeuwarden, 1800. |
| 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 4962. Other pressmarks: 120.g.15; ex libris Fredk. Muller, Amsterdam. |