StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelItem
Reference Number MS GRAVES/22
TitleAlgebraic Treatises
Date19th century
DescriptionManuscript volume, possibly early 19th century, containing treatises on Geometrical Algebra, Plane Trigonometry, Of Heights and Distances, Spherical Geometry, Spherical Trigonometry, Oblique Spherical Trigonometry, Of the Projection of the Sphere, and Astronomy. Includes diagrams, many of them coloured.
Extent1 volume containing 139 leaves
CustodialHistoryThe 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 937. Libri 1410.
AcquisitionGraves' library was bequeathed to University College London in 1870.
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Related MaterialShares a former shelfmark (Libri 1410) with MS GRAVES/19.
FindingAidsDorothy K Coveney, 'A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of University College London' (London, 1935), and handlist at University College London Special Collections.
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