St John‘s College Personal Collections

Musical papers

TaylorB/B
Series
1710–1730 (Circa)

Part of Papers of Brook Taylor

Notes on sound

TaylorB/B/B8
Item
1710–1730 (Circa)

Part of Papers of Brook Taylor

Divided into 28 paragraphs.

Mathematical notes including propositions, theorems, problems, calculations, and diagrams

TaylorB/C/C1
File
1712–1713 (Circa)

Part of Papers of Brook Taylor

Latin and English. Some of the material is not in Taylor's hand. Includes notes on the extraction of roots, 'Of lines divided harmonically', 'Domini Keil ... solutio problematis Kepleriani' (1 Oct. 1712), and a note dated 10 March 1712/13 recording an experiment on vibrations in a string.

'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.

'A second letter from a merchant in Amsterdam, to his correspondent in London'

TaylorB/D/D3
Item
21 Nov. 1718

Part of Papers of Brook Taylor

Unsigned. Regarding trade.

Autograph draft letter signed from Taylor to John Machin

TaylorB/E/E2
Item
26 July 1712

Part of Papers of Brook Taylor

Sets out 'Taylor's theorem'.

Notebooks

TaylorB/A
Series
1710–1730 (Circa)

Part of Papers of Brook Taylor

Notebook containing mathematical notes in English and Latin, with diagrams and calculations

TaylorB/A/A2
Item
1710–1730 (Circa)

Part of Papers of Brook Taylor

In vellum binding with ties. Some loose paper discs, some bearing letters and numbers, are enclosed.

Commonplace book in English, Latin and French

TaylorB/A/A3
Item
1712 (Circa)

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.

Notebook containing notes on music

TaylorB/B/B1
Item
1710–1730 (Circa)

Part of Papers of Brook Taylor

In two parts, labelled '1st' and '2d'. Includes 'Of the nature of sound and of musical relations', 'Of the notation used in music to express the several notes', 'Of harmony', and 'Of the consecution of chords in original harmony'.

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