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Total number of records: 92

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Auguis, Pierre Rene (1786-1846)10
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Newton, Isaac, 1642-17278
Laplace, Pierre Simon Marquis De (1749-1827)8
Frisch, Christian (1807-1881)8
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Archive File:
MS 1554
c.1820-c.1834
Comprises a manuscript book of correspondence and papers etc. belonging to the late Thomas Beverley; selected and arranged by John Bravender, Oct. 1836. It includes many excerpts from technical printe...
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MS 500
c.1801-1850
Contents include: (1) a plan of York Minster (f.33) and local topographical notes on Malham Cove, Whernside, Ingleborough, Pen-y-Ghent and Pendle Hill (ff.40v-41); (2) financial accounts dated 1838 on...
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Astronomy A-0.01
The system of the world (v.2)

Laplace, Pierre Simon marquis de (1749-1827); Harte, Henry Hickman (1790-1848)

1830
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Slavonic B-0.02 ZHI
1892
Includes bibliographical references.
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Mathematics B-1/DEM
[1837]
Caption title. Extracted from Companion to the Almanac for 1837.
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Ancient History E-1/DRU
1821
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Mathematics A-1/BLA
1830
Contents: Trigonometrical problems.-- Hydrostatical problems.-- Optical problems.-- Problems from Newton's Principia.-- Astronomical problems.
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Mathematics B-1/BOS
A general history of mathematics : from the earliest times to the middle of the eighteenth century

Bossut, Charles (1730-1814); Bonnycastle, John (1750?-1821); Bye and Law (firm) (fl. 1793-1809); Johnson, Joseph (fl. 1761-1815)

1803
The chronological table is by the translator, J. Bonnycastle.
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Icelandic A-5.1/BJA
Himingeimurinn

Ágúst H. Bjarnason (1875-1952)

1926
"Heimildarrit"; p. [8].