Miscellanea analytica de seriebus et quadraturis: accessere variæ considerationes de methodis comparationum, combinationum & differentiarum, solutiones difficiliorum aliquot problematum ad sortem spectantium, itemque constructiones faciles orbium planetarum, una cum determinatione maximarum & minimarum mutationum quæ in motibus corporum coelestium occurrunt.

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Author / Creator:Moivre, Abraham de, 1667-1754
Imprint:Londini, excudebant J. Tonson & J. Watts, 1730.
Description:4 p.l., 250 p., 1 l., 22, [2] p. diagrs. 26 x 21 cm.
Language:Latin
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Format: Print Book
Local Note:"Miscellaneis analyticis supplementum" bound in at end.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/898669
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Provenance:Manuscript annotations: in different hands; recto B 'see vince's flux(?) p. 252'; p 4 'see vince's flux(?) p. 254'; p 13 'Maseres(?) Trig(?) p. 461'; p 15 '-2z^(2n)' written in pencil then in ink in the bottom right corner; p 16 '2z^(2n) 4z(2n)' written twice in left and right margin; p 19 'praeciperetur' corrected to 'perciperetur'; p 21 'in parte n' corrected to 'in partes n'; p 21 '&c' crossed out; p 21 '(n+1)/2' added between posterior and illos; p 21 'n' crossed out of consinus affirmativos n'; p 21 'of the beginning of the (illegible) alternatively are each side of the origin of the arc'; p 22 'n+1' corrected to 'n-1'; p 23 'the beginning of origin of the arcs'; p 31 'mm-mp^2' changed to 'mm-m^2p^2'; p 38 'mP' corrected to 'm^3P'; p 38 'Q=u' u is underlined and Q=1 is written in the margin'; p 46 '(CD)/(CBq) corrected to '(CB)/(DBq)'; p 35 'minor' corrected to 'qualis'; p 56 underlined 'x' in the margin; p 60 first equation crossed out with 'see above,' in margin and '(z^(θ)R^(-λ)-(θ-λn)F)/(λne)'; p 62 in margin of first equation '"λ" for (illegible) read -.'; p 62 crossed out '=4λn-2θxeg' corrected to '2θ-4λnxeg'; p 62 'quantitatis' underlined and 'quantitas' in the margin; p 63 'Denominator' underlined and 'Numerator' in margin; p 69 '4pz' crossed out and '+pz' in margin; p 73 'P' crossed out and 'Q' written over; p 97 title correct to 'V'; p 103 'see a more correct table at the end'; p 112 written in pen next to the first equation '(ux^(n+1))/(n+1)+pi((ux^(n+1))/(n+1)) and the first part of the written equation is traced in pencil with a question mark above the plus sign; p 112 before 'problema', 'see vince's flux (?) p 219 art 153 ny(?); p 138 'quae' crossed out and 'quam' written in margin; p 146-7 passages marked in margins; p 148 carrot after 'Sexti & Septimi' and 'accommod..(last letters illegible); p 149 passage marked and p 141 written a few lines below in margin; p 149 'quaeque' underlined and 'quaque' in the margin in pencil; p 149 'hinc' underlined and 'hunc' in margin in pen; p 150 'secunda Editio' underlined and 'The first (underlined) English edition' in margin; p 150 carrot betwen 'ray que' and 'pas' written in margin; p 152 passage marked; p 155 equation corrected twice in margin; p 175 '2-a' crossed out and '1-2a' written in margin; p 178 ' doctrine of chances p 85' written next to 'Problema I'; p 179 'D of C page 86' written next to 'solutio'; p 182 'D of C p 83' written next to "problema I'; p 183 'D of C p 84' written next to "problema II'; p 185 'D of C p 109' written next to 'problema'; p 188 'D of C p 112' written next to 'problema'; p 199 'D of C p 56' written next to 'problema Huygenianum'; p 201 'D of C p 62' written next to 'corollarium II'; p 202 'D of C 51' written next to 'problema II'; p 203 'propositio' corrected to 'proposito'; p 204 'D of C p 55' written next to problema III'; p 205 'Doctrine of Chnaces First Edition page 142' written at bottom; p 207 'D of C p 123' written next to 'problema IV'; p 208 'D of C p 115' written next to 'problema V'; p 210 'D of C p 50' written next to 'problema VI'; p 212 'D of C p 44' written next to 'solutio'; p 214 'D of C p 46' written next to 'tabella limitum'; p 215 'i' underlined in 'dilapus' and corrected to 'e'; p 218 passage marked; p 220 'D of C p 169' written next to 'solutio'; p 221 'see errata' written under 'investigatio'; p 228 the fractions with 'n' as the denominator are corrected to '2'; p 238 'SP=Z' written in pen next to first paragraph with 'SB' underlined and in pencil there is a question mark next to the equation written in pen; p 1 of 'miscellaneis' - 'see pages 163, 170' at the top of the paragraph; p 1 after 'radius est unitas' is written '=log of sqr(2pi) = log of sqr(6.2831853072)'; p 5 'not of logs ...(illegible)' written at top of page; p 5 next to summae potestatum 'the sums of the powers of l terms of the arithmetical progression1, 2, 3, 4, (illegible) of series 1,2,3,4, (illegible). The sums of l terms of the latter series would have been the same, the signs being alternatively + and -. See Miscell Curiosa p 47 (illegible) and p 49 (illegible)'; p 5 written at bottom of page '∫l^c signifies the sum of l terms of the series 1.2.3.4 each raised to the c power'; p 6 carrot between '(7/15)(+D)' and 2/9 written in margin; p 6 equation 'E' is written to be equal to '5/66'; p 8 ;tertia' underlined and 'quarta' written in the margin; p 9 '?' written next to 'corollarium I'; p 22 above the table 'this table is the sum of Brigg's logs of the natural number 1, 2, 3, 4 from 1 to 900. The sums being registered after every tenth number only included. How are the intermediate (illegible) found and what is its use? They are the logs of the continuous product of the number from 1 to 900'; on back pastedown '8/96/791' written and '(illegible)/1.50'.
Binding: 21st-century brown cloth over boards; earlier red edges. Formerl bound in quarter bound speckled calf with library cloth spine repair and gilt tooling on board edges.

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