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Title

Facsimile of LJS 183, Student's notebook on arithmetic and algebra

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

8-23-2015

Files

Comments

Student notebook containing problems copied from standard mathematical works and solved. The sources are Johannes Buteo's Logistica (1559); William Oughtred's Clavis mathematicae (1631) and possibly Gilbert Clerke's Oughtredus explicatus (1682, reference to Oughtred Explayned, f. 55r); and the Fermat-Becher edition of Diophantus (1670).

Keywords

Algebra--Early works to 1800, Arithmetic--Early works to 1800, Mathematics--Early works to 1800 Codices, Lecture notes, Manuscripts Latin--17th century, Manuscripts English--17th century, Manuscripts European

See More at Penn in Hand

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5311754

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs183.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 183, Student's notebook on arithmetic and algebra" (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 217.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/217