Notebooks of prof. Rigaud
MS. Rigaud 36
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Title
Notebooks of prof. Rigaud
Shelfmark
MS. Rigaud 36
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:
Fol. 4. 'Tychonis Brahe Stellarum inerrantium ... numero millenarum ... canonica expositio ad annum ... mdc ... accommodata', copied from the MS. signed by Brahe himself in the Bodleian (Arch. Bodl. D. 32), 1833; with a prefatory note
Fol. 23. 'Sir Isaac Newton, Mrs. Catharine Barton & Lord Halifax', an essay, 1836
Fol. 36. A paper read before the Oxford Literary and Scientific Institution, April 6, 1836, on mechanics
Fol. 50. Collations of the Arenarius of Archimedes, in Greek
Fol. 66. Astronomical papers and tables, original or copied
Fol. 171. 'On physical causes to which the Mosaic Deluge may be attributed', 1834
Fol. 200. An essay on Well's Theory of Dew
Date
Written in 1806-1839, chiefly by S. P. Rigaud
Language
English
Physical facet
On paper
Physical extent
214 Leaves
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Collection contents
Papers of Rigaud
Notebooks of prof. Rigaud
