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Reference Number MS GRAVES/25
TitleL'Espinasse, "Traité sur la Pratique de la Trigonometrie"
Date1767
DescriptionManuscript, 1767: Traité sur la Pratique de la Trigonometrie (treatise on the application of trigonometry), by M le Chevalier de L'Espinasse, Lieutenant ein premier dans le corps Royal de l'Artillerie (lieutenant in the royal artillery corps). With 17 printed plates of diagrams.
Extent1 volume
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 178. Other pressmarks: 3.e.7; 58.k.12.
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.
FindingAids<p>Dorothy K Coveney, <emph render="italic">A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London </emph>(London, 1935); handlist at University College London Special Collections. </p>
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