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Title
[Mathematical notebook from the Free School at Orwell].
Contributor
Brown, Richard, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued
[1791]
Contributing Institution
UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection
Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information
Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description
Scope/Content: Manuscript. On pages 74-75, "A Platform of the Buildings &c belonging to the Free-school at Orwell"; a second similar map dated 1791 is on page 11 of the unnumbered sequence.
Scope/Content: Notebook of mathematical exercises and rules written in a calligraphic hand by a student at the Free School in Orwell, Cambridgeshire, around 1791. The volume contains instructions and examples in a variety of arithmetical operations, in addition to maps showing the plan of the school (used as exercises in finding areas of irregular forms) and a short list of texts required for other courses (on 2nd page of unnumbered sequence).
Condition: Bound in original full vellum; defective spine; housed in modern cloth case.
Type
text
Form/Genre
Notebooks
Ownership inscriptions (Provenance)
Extent
150, [28] p., bound ;21 cm.
Identifier
ark:/21198/n1bw2j
MS.1950.027
Language
English
eng
Subject
Arithmetic--18th century.
Mathematics--England--18th century.
Measurement--England--18th century.
Place
England--Cambridgeshire--Orwell
Provenance
Inscribed in pencil on front free endpaper: "Richard Brown, Master of the Free School, Orwell."
Location
CLUW

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