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    • Archives and manuscripts

    Guy

    Guy | Date: c. 1815-1831 | Reference: MS.2656
    • Books

    Genetics and social structure : mathematical structuralism in population genetics and social theory / edited by Paul Ballonoff.

    | Date: [1974]
  • view Visualised numerals / by Francis Galton.
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    Visualised numerals / by Francis Galton.

    Galton, Sir Francis, 1822-1911. | Date: 1880
  • view Outlines of natural philosophy : being heads of lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh / by John Playfair.
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    Outlines of natural philosophy : being heads of lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh / by John Playfair.

    Playfair, John, 1748-1819 | Date: 1814
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    Epistolarvm mathematicarvm fascicvlvs / Ioannis Poleni.

    Poleni, Giovanni, 1683-1761 | Date: 1729
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    Proof : a play / by David Auburn.

    Auburn, David, 1969- | Date: 2001
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    Le covrs de mathematiqve, contenant en cent figvres vne idée generale de toutes les parties de cette science, l'vsage de ses instrumens, diuerses manieres de prendre les distances, l'art d'arpenter, diuers moyens de lever et tracer vn plan, la reduction des figures par les triangles de rapport, la trigonometrie, les fortifications regulieres & irregulieres, leurs dehors, profil, esleuation, & sciagraphie. Contenant de plus vn traité de l'vsage du globe terrestre, et vn autre de l'optique dioptrique & catoptrique ... / par le R.P. Bovrdin, de la Compagnie de Iesvs.

    Bourdin, Pierre, 1595-1653 | Date: 1661
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    Women's work : 18 illustrators celebrate women in STEM / curated by Celine Loup and Shannon May.

    | Date: 2015
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    Isaaci Newtoni opera qu? exstant omnia. Commentariis illustrabat Samuel Horsley, LL. D. R. S. S. Reverendo Admodum in Christo Patri Roberto Episcopo Londinensi a Sacris.

    Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727. | Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]-85
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Zisat, Johann Baptist

    Zisat, Johann Baptist | Date: 1618 | Reference: MS.801
    • Books

    Makhṭūṭāt Barlīn / taʼlīf ʻAdnān Jawād al-Ṭuʻmah.

    Ṭuʻmah, ʻAdnān Jawād | Date: 1982
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    Mathematical preparation for physical chemistry / by Farrington Daniels.

    Daniels, Farrington, 1889-1972 | Date: 1928
  • view Mathematics: various surveying instruments. Engraving by Benard.
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    Mathematics: various surveying instruments. Engraving by Benard.

    | Reference: 47858i
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    Beecham's help to scholars : containing arithmetical tables and signs, weights and measures, tables of the metric system, geographical and geometrical definitions, sol-fa modulator, and other useful information arranged progressively / Beecham's Pills, Ltd.

    | Date: [1929?]
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    Mathematics in the making in ancient India : reprints of On the Śulvasūtras & Baudhyāyana Śulvasūtra / G. Thibaut ; edited by Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya.

    Thibaut, G. (George), 1848-1914 | Date: 1984
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    La iatromatematica nello studio di Padova e nel Veneto / Giuseppe Ongaro.

    Ongaro, Giuseppe | Date: 1990
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    Mathematics: a circular slide-rule for date calculation. Engraving [?] after Fuller.

    | Reference: 47861i
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    Beyond reason : eight great problems that reveal the limits of science / A.K. Dewdney.

    Dewdney, A. K | Date: [2004], ©2004
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    Solvtio problematis a R.P. Marino Mersenno minimo propositi: datis tribus quibscumq; magnitudinibus, rationalibus vel irrationalibus, datisque duarum ex illis logarithmis, tertiae logarithmum geometrice inuenire. Duo a proponente de hac propositione pronuntiantur. Unum quod forsitan longe difficiliorem quam ipsa quadratura solutionem requirat: alterum quod quadratura circuli a R.P.G. a Sto. Vincentio exhibita, abeat in illud neodum solutum problema / Avctore Alfonso Antonio de Sarasa.

    Sarasa, Alphonso Antonio de, 1618-1667. | Date: 1649
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Finch, Sir John (1584-1660)

    Finch, Sir John, 1584-1660 | Date: 1658-1660 | Reference: MS.2362
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Biot, Jean-Baptiste (1774-1862), French mathematician and physicist

    Biot, Jean-Baptiste, 1774-1862. | Date: c.1800-1937 | Reference: MSS.7038 & 8316
    • Pictures

    The brain seen from the underside, sectioned horizontally; with attention to the parts associated by Hollander's system of phrenology with the faculties of external perception and its memory. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.

    | Date: 1901 | Reference: 28018i
    • Journals

    Miscellanea philosophico-mathematica Societatis Privatae Taurinensis.

    | Date: [1759]
    • Journals

    Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and physical sciences.

    | Date: -1990
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    Sir Isaac Newton's mathematical principles of natural philosophy and his system of the world / translated into English by Andrew Motte in 1729. The translations revised and supplied with an historical and explanatory appendix, by Florian Cajori.

    Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 | Date: 1962 ©1934
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