W2/A-4-12
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- Shelfmark W2/A-4-12
- Humphry Ditton. Institution of fluxions: containing the first principles, ... of that ... method; ... Revised ... by John Clarke. 1726.
- inscription on title page: Cha. Colombine.
Inscription on front free endpaper: Presented by the Rev. W. N. Griffin Hon. Canon of Canterbury Vicar of Ospringe. Oct. 1886.
- inscription on title page: Cha. Colombine.
- Canon William Nathaniel Griffin (1815–1892) was Vicar of Ospringe (1848–1892) and an Honorary Canon of Canterbury (1872–1892). The work he presented to the Library was a textbook on calculus; he wrote books on optics, trigonometry and algebra.
The previous owner Charles Colombine may be an Irish land surveyor mentioned in 1735.[1]
- Canon William Nathaniel Griffin (1815–1892) was Vicar of Ospringe (1848–1892) and an Honorary Canon of Canterbury (1872–1892). The work he presented to the Library was a textbook on calculus; he wrote books on optics, trigonometry and algebra.
References
- ↑ A. A. Horner, 'Two eighteenth-century maps of Carlow Town', Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Vol. 78, 1978, 115ff.