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Title: Miscellanea curiosa.
Creator: Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742.
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
Contributor: Vincent, Chas., former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1705]
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. Some accounts written on first preliminary page and end pages of text in a different hand; one entry dated 1723. Table of contents on page opposite first numbered page.
Scope/Content: Manuscript volume containing extracts from the 1705 compilation Miscellanea curiosa, including multiple articles by Edmund Halley, Isaac Newton and other members of the Royal Society. Written in a neat hand throughout, most articles only vary slighting in wording and spelling from their published versions. The volume also contains several pages of accounts written in a different, slightly later hand.
Condition: Bound in half calf with marbled boards; spine rubbed and front hinge coming loose; some loose pages.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Account books
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Extent: [2], 87, [7] p., bound ;19 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1qw4q
MS.2009.023
Language: English
eng
Subject: Science--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.
Place: England
Provenance: Inscribed on first preliminary page: "Chas. Vincent, " in a different hand than majority of text.
Location: CLUW

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