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Papers of Brook Taylor

TaylorB
Fonds
1701–1981

Includes notebooks, musical papers, mathematical notes, printed ephemera, and correspondence.

Taylor, Brook (1685-1731) mathematician

Printed ephemera

TaylorB/D
Series
1701–1718 (Circa)

Part of Papers of Brook Taylor

Receipts for various medicinal compositions including tinctures, elixirs, salts, and oils

TaylorB/C/C5
Item
1710–1730 (Circa)

Part of Papers of Brook Taylor

Each receipt is followed by an 'observation'.

'Saros, sive eclipsium lunarium [et Solarium] periodus Chaldaica currentis seculi prima'

TaylorB/D/D2
Item
1701–1718

Part of Papers of Brook Taylor

Covers the years 1701-18.

'Statuta legenda in admissione inceptorum in jure civili, ad quorum observationem singuli tenentur'

TaylorB/D/D1
Item
1709 (Circa)

Part of Papers of Brook Taylor

A passage at the end is dated 'Ex decret. academ. Jun. 1684'. Taylor graduated LLB in 1709.

'The statutes of the Royal Society of London for improving natural knowledge'

TaylorB/A/A1
Item
1715–1718 (Circa)

Part of Papers of Brook Taylor

In Taylor's hand. Taylor served as Secretary to the Royal Society 1715-18. In 19 chapters with 'An additional statute of the election of fellows enacted Aug. 2 & 5 1682' at the end. With two typescript letters from G.G. Stokes to Ernest Taylor, of 1886, regarding this manuscript.

Various miscellaneous notes and computations relating to music

TaylorB/B/B9
Item
1710–1730 (Circa)

Part of Papers of Brook Taylor

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