Manuscripts from the Graves Library, primarily on subjects relating to mathematics, geometry, algebra and astronomy.
Graves Manuscripts
This material is held atUniversity College London Archives
- Reference
- GB 103 MS GRAVES
- Dates of Creation
- 15th Century - 19th Century
- Language of Material
- French Latin English
- Physical Description
- 37 items
Scope and Content
Access Information
Open
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Acquisition Information
Part of the Graves Library, bequeathed to UCL in 1870 by John Thomas Graves, Professor of Jurisprudence at UCL 1838-43. A book collector all his life, Graves maintained interests in the three separate studies of law, classics and mathematics. His library has been described as one of the most complete and valuable private libraries of its kind and consists of an extensive collection of early books, pamphlets and manuscripts principally devoted to the early mathematics but also including the history of physics, applied mathematics in all its branches and to a lesser extent chemistry and the biological sciences.