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- catalog abstract "This notebook consists of Griffin's mathematical exercises for the measurement of solids, heights and distances, geometry, and trigonometry completed while he was a student at Harvard College. Many of the exercises are illustrated by carefully hand-drawn diagrams, several of which are colored. The volume includes Griffin's drawings depicting the mathematics involved in land surveying and the construction of mariners' compasses and moon dials. Color illustrations in this volume include drawings of geographical locations in New England including the Massachusetts coast from Scituate to Beverly and views from Hollis Hall at Harvard. Two larger color drawings of Harvard and the surrounding community created by Griffin while he was a student at Harvard are also classified with this volume. The drawings, "A northerly perspective view from a window in Massachusetts Hall" and "A westerly perspective view of part of the town of Cambridge" were previously removed from the volume and housed separately in oversized folders. Additional copy prints of these two drawings made in 1900 and 1920 are also available.".
- catalog contributor b7998567.
- catalog coverage "Cambridge (Mass.) Buildings, structures, etc. pictorial works.".
- catalog date "1783".
- catalog description "Samuel Griffin (1762-1812), A.B., 1784, Harvard, was a physician in Chester, N.H. and Billerica, Mass., and later a planter in Bedford County, Va. Griffin was born in 1762 to Ebenezer and Mary (Colcord) Griffin in Hawke (now Kingston), N.H. While a student at Harvard, Griffin was a waiter for the lower tables and also served as the curator of college buildings during school vacations in 1781. Griffin was allegedly killed by one of his slaves in Virginia 1812.".
- catalog description "Superficial Mensuration-- Menusration of Solids-- Practical Geometry-- Construction of the Plain Scale-- Surveying-- Dialling-- Trigonometry-- Mensuration of Heights and Distances-- The Mariner's Compass-- Plain Sailing-- A Chart of the Coast of New England from Situate to Beverly-- Spherical Geometry".
- catalog description "The Harvard University Archives holds similar mathematical notebooks from the late 18th century by students Ephraim Eliot (HUC 8779.353), William Emerson Faulkner (HUC 8795.353.26), Ebenezer Hill (HUC 8782.353), Thomas Noyes (HUC 8793.353), and William Tudor (HUC 8795.353.88).".
- catalog description "This notebook consists of Griffin's mathematical exercises for the measurement of solids, heights and distances, geometry, and trigonometry completed while he was a student at Harvard College. Many of the exercises are illustrated by carefully hand-drawn diagrams, several of which are colored. The volume includes Griffin's drawings depicting the mathematics involved in land surveying and the construction of mariners' compasses and moon dials. Color illustrations in this volume include drawings of geographical locations in New England including the Massachusetts coast from Scituate to Beverly and views from Hollis Hall at Harvard.".
- catalog description "Two larger color drawings of Harvard and the surrounding community created by Griffin while he was a student at Harvard are also classified with this volume. The drawings, "A northerly perspective view from a window in Massachusetts Hall" and "A westerly perspective view of part of the town of Cambridge" were previously removed from the volume and housed separately in oversized folders. Additional copy prints of these two drawings made in 1900 and 1920 are also available.".
- catalog extent ".04 cubic feet (1 volume, 2 oversized folders)".
- catalog isPartOf "Collections of the Harvard University Archives. Personal archives. hua".
- catalog isPartOf "Harvard in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. hua".
- catalog issued "1783".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog spatial "Cambridge (Mass.) Buildings, structures, etc. pictorial works.".
- catalog spatial "Massachusetts Cambridge".
- catalog subject "Geometry Study and teaching (higher) Massachusetts Cambridge 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1784.".
- catalog subject "Harvard Hall (Cambridge, Mass.) Pictorial works.".
- catalog subject "Harvard University Buildings Pictorial works.".
- catalog subject "Harvard University Curricula 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Mathematics Study and teaching (higher) Massachusetts Cambridge 18th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Superficial Mensuration-- Menusration of Solids-- Practical Geometry-- Construction of the Plain Scale-- Surveying-- Dialling-- Trigonometry-- Mensuration of Heights and Distances-- The Mariner's Compass-- Plain Sailing-- A Chart of the Coast of New England from Situate to Beverly-- Spherical Geometry".
- catalog title "Mathematical manuscript of Samuel Griffin, 1783-1784.".
- catalog type "Drawings. aat".
- catalog type "Harvard students' notes. local".
- catalog type "Manuscript maps. aat".
- catalog type "collection".