BIB_ID
132280
Accession number
MA 1080.1
Creator
Mitchell, Robert.
Display Date
1816 Oct. 22.
Credit line
Purchased, 1929.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) : ill. ; 23.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Thomas Carlyle / Student / Mainhill / near Ecclefechan."
Includes a diagram of a triangle that accompanies a mathematical proof.
Part of a large collection of letters to Thomas Carlyle. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 1080 for details.
With trace of a seal.
Includes a diagram of a triangle that accompanies a mathematical proof.
Part of a large collection of letters to Thomas Carlyle. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 1080 for details.
With trace of a seal.
Provenance
Purchased from E.D. North, 1929.
Summary
Discussing mathematical theorems and sending his effort at a theorem about "the perpendiculars & the equal angles"; mentioning that he has "been looking at some propositions & solid geometry and must confess that Euclid & West & [John] Playfair only darken axioms by attempting to explain them"; adding, "I met with a beautiful Quadratic of the Parabola by [William?] Wallace -- Indeed I never was so convinced of the truth of the proposition as after reading him"; commenting on shared acquaintances.
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