Mathematical works
Published: 1675
Place of publication: England
Language: eng
Subjects: Penmanship; Specimens; Geometry; Early works to 1800; Mathematics
Notes: Autograph manuscript on paper in English.

Four folio and one quarto manuscript booklets in a single hand from a collection of schoolroom-related ephemera from Hooton Pagnell Hall, a country house in Yorkshire; four with apparently original contents, one a copy of a treatise on clocks by William Oughtred (1574-1660) (taken  almost certainly from a manuscript as its text is different from the version printed in 1675).

1. Notes and operations on the first booke of Des Cartes his Geometry concerning such problemes as maybe performed by the ruler and compass.--2.Of the ellipsis.--3.Of the hyperbola.--4.Among all the mathematicall sciences the knowledge of a sphere or globe is the most pleasant and usefull.--5.Of movements or automata / by William Oughtred.

Plain stitched wrappers to all.