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Title: [Notes on lectures by Gervase Holmes and Nicholas Saunderson].
Creator: Willey, John, 1721-1789.
Holmes, Gervase, died 1776.
Saunderson, Nicholas, 1682-1739.
Date Created and/or Issued: about 1738.
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. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper: "I. Willey, Chr. Coll., 1738." Bound in contemporary sheep with blind stamping to covers; wear and chipping to edges; much chipping to spine, but binding is still sturdy.
Scope/Content: Manuscript volume of lecture notes from Cambridge in about 1738, recording lectures by Gervase Holmes on natural philosophy, optics and hydrostatics, and Nicholas Saunderson on astronomy. The notes appear to have been taken by John Willey (1721-1789), who matriculated to Christ College Cambridge in 1737. The notes are neatly written throughout and there are some diagrams on the versos (particularly in the astronomy notes) in addition to a fold-out leaf with a diagram related to the Holmes lectures on optics.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Lecture notes
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Extent: 26, [205] leaves, bound ;21 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1h03h
MS.2014.005
Language: English
eng
Subject: Astronomy--Early works to 1800.
Hydrostatics--Early works to 1800.
Physics--Early works to 1800.
Optics--Early works to 1800.
Place: England--Cambridge
Location: CLUW

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