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Mathematics

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  • Phrenological diagrams of the skull and brain, with three portraits: Laurence Sterne, a mathematician, and Shakespeare; exemplifying the faculties of wit, number and imagination respectively. Engraving by H. Sawyer after W. Byam, 1818.
  • A classical courtyard filled with natural philosophers, scientists and artists. Engraving after S. Le Clerc.
  • Two merchants and a woman at a table; representing arithmetic. Etching by C. Schut after himself.
  • Mensuration: a man using an inclinometer (?) and trigonometry to measure a water-tank (?) in a field. Engraving, ca.1760.
  • A mathematician draws a semi-circle while Minerva watches over him. Engraving by R. Sadeler, 1591, after M. de Vos.
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Catalogue

    • Archives and manuscripts

    Guy

    Guy | Date: c. 1815-1831 | Reference: MS.2656
    • Books

    Genetics and social structure : mathematical structuralism in population genetics and social theory / edited by Paul Ballonoff.

    | Date: [1974]
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    Science and civilisation in China. Vol. 3 (= Sections 19-25), Mathematics and the sciences of the heavens and the earth / with the collaboration of Wang Ling / by Joseph Needham.

    Needham, Joseph, 1900-1995. | Date: 1959
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    Visualised numerals / by Francis Galton.

    Galton, Sir Francis, 1822-1911. | Date: 1880
    • Books
    • Online

    Outlines of natural philosophy : being heads of lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh / by John Playfair.

    Playfair, John, 1748-1819. | Date: 1814
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