- TaylorB/B/B7
- Item
- 1710–1730 (Circa)
Part of Papers of Brook Taylor
Notes incorporating musical notation and notes on harmony.
Part of Papers of Brook Taylor
Notes incorporating musical notation and notes on harmony.
A.L.s. from Edmond Halley to Dr John Arbuthnot, from Oxford
Part of Miscellaneous Papers
Discusses Flamsteed's Star catalogue.
A.L., s. to 'Honoured Father and Mother' from Henry Cantrell, London
Part of Miscellaneous Papers
Discusses his appointment as the Vicar of Alkmunds.
Autograph letter signed from Taylor to John Newcome
Part of Papers of Brook Taylor
Sends Newcome his table of refractions and discusses it. Discusses the lottery.
Commonplace book in English, Latin and French
Part of Papers of Brook Taylor
Contains notes on English law, mathematics and theology. The mathematical material includes notes on fluxions, statics, attraction, ratios, oscillation, and refraction, dated 1712. Also contains some 19th-century notes. In vellum binding with ties.
Autograph letter to Roger Cotes
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Draft of letter for which the final version does not survive, of late Jul./early Aug. 1712, containing a draft of the Scholium to Proposition 35 of the Principia, 2nd ed., 1713. See A.R. Hall and L. Tilling (eds.) The correspondence of Isaac Newton. Vol. 5, 1709-1713. CUP, 1975. pp 315-319, letters 929 and 931.
The letter was discovered in JCA's papers with letters from D. Brewster, March - May 1855, (Box 5/37), and had evidently been sent to Brewster for comment and returned, through the post.
The remainder of Newton's drafts of letters to Cotes are among the Portsmouth Papers in CUL, and the final versions (other than that of this letter), are in Trinity College Library.
Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) Knight, natural philosopher and mathematician
Autograph draft letter signed from Taylor to John Machin
Part of Papers of Brook Taylor
Sets out 'Taylor's theorem'.
'The statutes of the Royal Society of London for improving natural knowledge'
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.
Copy by Taylor of a letter from Mr Cotes to Mr Jones
Part of Papers of Brook Taylor
Regarding the dependence of fluents upon measures of ratios and angles. Copied 24 Nov. 1718.
Autograph draft letters from Taylor to Pierre Rémond de Montmort
Part of Papers of Brook Taylor
Of 9 Aug. and 9 Oct. 1717