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1. A sphere projecting against a plane [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1792 i.e. not before 1849]
- Call Number:
- 792.01.03.01.2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Pitt, very thin, stands rigidly erect in profile to the right. Mrs. Hobart, immensely fat, completely fills a globe which stands on a rectangular platform on castors, and whose circumference rests against Pitt's post-like person. She looks up at him expectantly; he stares over her head with a pained expression. Beneath the title is etched: 'Definitions from Euclid. Def: Ist B: 4th. A Sphere, is a Figure bounded by a Convex surface; it is the most perfect of all forms; its Properties are generated from its Centre; and it possesses a larger Area than any other Figure. - Def: 2d B: Ist A Plane, is a perfectly even & regular Surface, it is the most Simple of all Figures ; it has neither the Properties of Length or of Breadth ; and when applied ever so closely to a Sphere, can only touch its Superficies, without being able to enter it - Vide. Euclid, illustrated; by the Honble Mrs Circumference.'"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., "No. 72" in upper right corner., and Restrike of No. 8054 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Jany. 3d. 1792 by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Euclid.
- Subject (Topic):
- Mathematics, Obesity, and Vehicles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A sphere projecting against a plane [graphic].
2. Algorismus
- Creator:
- Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1460.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 977
- Image Count:
- 26
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Joannes de Sacrobosco's Algorismus vulgaris, a treatise on mathermatics, numbers, and Hindu-Arabic numerals. Here incorrectly attributed to Boethius in the opening rubric and The manuscript is a palimpsest containing portions of Ovid's Heroides: on f. 2, Epistle XVI, lines 109-172; on f. 3, Epistle XVI, lines 173-233; on f. 5, Epistle XIV, lines 79-132; on f. 7, Epistle XIII, lines 119-166; on f. 8, Epistle XVI, lines 234-297. Remaining leaves unidentified
- Alternative Title:
- Algorismus vulgaris and Algorismus Boetii incipit
- Description:
- In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger. Variant title from opening rubric., Layout: Single columns of 32 lines., Script: gothic hybrida., Decoration: rubrication., Binding: modern paper., Secundo folio: De additione., and Evidence of pricking.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Boethius, -524., Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230., and Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Mathematics
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Algorismus
3. Algorithmus
- Creator:
- Prosdocimus, de Beldemandis, -1428
- Published / Created:
- 22 February 1483.
- Image Count:
- 64
- Alternative Title:
- De minutiis
- Description:
- Includes De minutiis, by Johannes de Liveriis.
- Publisher:
- Matthaeus Cerdonis
- Subject (Topic):
- Mathematics
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Algorithmus
4. Arithmetica
- Creator:
- Boethius, -524
- Published / Created:
- 11th century
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 984
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of a fragment of De Arithmetica by Boethius
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in Carolina. The glosses in a different, small handwriting. Headings in Capitalis. The words following an initial in a mixture of Capitalis and Uncialis. Headings and plain initials (in Capitalis) in red. The table on f. 2v is traced in double red ink lines, the space between the double lines coloured yellow., Boethius, De arithmetica, 1.10.87-1.11.52, with interlinear glosses. One bifolio, the two leaves not in succession. Loss of text caused by holes and the rubbing on ff. 1r and 2v., and Binding: the bifolium was used for the binding of a book, ff. 1r and 2v being the outer side of the covers; because of the wide inner margins, relatively little text was lost in the process.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Boethius, -524.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Mathematics
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Arithmetica
5. Collection of astronomical treatises and instructions for the creation of musical and mathematical instruments
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1450.
- Call Number:
- Incunabula +E-113 (Goff)
- Image Count:
- 610
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, in several unidentified hands, containing a collection of 30 astronomical treatises and instructions for the creation of musical and matematical instruments, such as the organ, clavichord, Turkish instrument, cylindrical clocks, sundial, astrolabe, etc. Texts include treatises by Franco de Polonia, (Pseudo-)Bede, Johannes Symonis de Zalandria, Johannes de Lineriis, Petrus Peregrinus of Maricourt, and Gerardus Cremonensis. Number 2 of 4 titles bound together
- Alternative Title:
- Manuscripts, composed of astronomical and mathematical texts and instructions for making musical instruments written down by two different scribes [i.e. Yale Medical Historical Library Manuscript 25]
- Description:
- In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Gothic cursiva., Decoration: Ample rubricated mathematical tables and diagrams. Two- to four-line capital letters in red ink. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of 35 lines., Binding: 16th-century red blind-tooled leather on wooden boards. Rebacked in the 19th century. Two clasps closing on the top cover., Locally also referred to as Manuscript 25., Foliation in modern ink; starting at f. 1., and Also available on microfilm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astronomical Instruments, Astronomy, Mathematics, and Musical instruments
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of astronomical treatises and instructions for the creation of musical and mathematical instruments
6. The multiplication table, or a Juvenile musical improvement in arithmetic
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1790]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 74 782 M961
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- notated music
- Alternative Title:
- Multiplication table, or A juvenile musical improvement in arithmetic and Twice 2 is 4
- Description:
- Caption title from page 1., "Second-hand Music and musical instruments at very reduced Prices."--Following imprint., First line of lyrics within the first set of musical staffs: Twice 2 is 4 twice 3 is 6 twice 4 is 8 twice 5 is 10 twice 6 is 12 ..., "Price 1s.", and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Printed by Longman and Broderip, No. 26, Cheapside and No. 13 Haymarket
- Subject (Topic):
- Mathematics, Study and teaching (Early childhood), Games with music, and Instruction and study
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The multiplication table, or a Juvenile musical improvement in arithmetic
