Notebooks of prof. Rigaud: Miscellaneous scientific papers | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Notebooks of prof. Rigaud: Miscellaneous scientific papers

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MS. Rigaud 41

Summary

Notebooks of, and chiefly written by, prof. S. P. Rigaud on scientific and literary subjects, especially Astronomy, Mathematics, and Natural Science, usually consisting of stitched sections, each dated and signed and containing varying numbers of leaves: every volume has a (later) list of contents. Prof. Rigaud was fond of noting down criticisms as he read through a book, and everything he did was distinguished by neatness and precision.

The chief contents are as follows, the papers and essays to which no name is attached being by Rigaud:

Criticisms of printed books with extracts, meteorological observations at Richmond in 1826 (fol. 179)

Magnetic observations at Kew, 1824 (fol. 193)

Notes on Newton's Principia. 1815 (fol. 278)

Measurements of heights by a barometer at Kew, 1823 (fol. 340)

At Richmond, 1826 (fol. 385), etc.