Miscellanea curiosa. [ca. 1705]

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Miscellanea curiosa. [ca. 1705]

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Manuscript volume containing extracts from the 1705 compilation Miscellanea curiosa, including multiple articles by Edmund Halley, Isaac Newton and other members of the Royal Society. Written in a neat hand throughout, most articles only vary slighting in wording and spelling from their published versions. The volume also contains several pages of accounts written in a different, slightly later hand.

[2], 87, [7] p., bound ; 19 cm.

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7612958

University of California, Los Angeles

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Royal Society (Great Britain)

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