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Title: Evolution; or, the extracting of just roots out of all powers, by one universal rule, as easy as common division
Identifier(s): text:348; APSimg6536; Goodman Number: 159; 973 C683 No. 247
Description: A mathematical broadside examining evolution, or, the extracting of just roots out of all powers.; Portions of the broadside are missing.
Creator: Falck, N. D. (Nikolai Detlef), 1736-1783
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Mathematics
Date: n.d.

Title: Evening problems
Identifier(s): text:35; APSimg6636; Goodman Number: 157
Description: Twenty-four mathematical problems in algebra, geometry, and trigonometry. A chemist and natural philosopher, Patterson was professor at the University of Pennsylvania (1813-1820), the University of Virginia (1828-1835), and later director of the United States Mint.; Item call number: 510 Pam. xp, no. 5.
Creator: Patterson, Robert M. (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854
Source: Robert Maskell Patterson Papers (510 Pam. xp);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Mathematics; Geometry; Education
Date: 1822

Title: Report of a commission appointed to examine the triangulation of Mr. James Ferguson, assistant U.S. Coast Survey upon the coast of the United States, during the years, 1844-45. Coast Survey Office, Washington, March 1, 1847
Identifier(s): text:254; APSimg6462; Goodman Number: 155; 973 C683 No. 631
Description: Signed in type by Benjamin Peirce, Andrew Talcott, and Charles Davies. Reveals the commission decision that the "real character" of Mr. Ferguson's work was "defective and uncertain in results."
Creator: United States. Office of Coast Survey
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Coastlines; Surveying
Date: 1847

Title: ...The greatest number that can be expressed by three figures would...require a line many miles in length.... This greatest number is expressed by the algebraical notation thus, 9(99), or a number derived from a series of multiplications by 9, in which there are three hundred and eighty-seven million, four hundred and twenty thousand, four hundred and eighty-nine rows. Great as this number is, such improvements have been made in arithmetic within the few last centuries, that some of the first and last figures may be discovered.... December 11, 1831.
Identifier(s): text:1767; APSimg6463; Goodman Number: 158; 973 C683 No. 379
Description: Four-page excerpt from a text on mathematics.
Creator: W. F.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Mathematics
Date: 1831

Title: Tables of natural sines and natural tangents, for the use of field parties of the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, 1875.
Identifier(s): text:238; APSimg6464; Goodman Number: 161; 973 C683 No. 669
Description: Tables of natural sines and natural tangents, for the use of field parties of the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, 1875. [Page 4:] Table of natural tangents for each 30'', from 0o to 10o, prepared...by Otis H. Kendall, instructor in mathematics, University of Pennsylvania.
Creator: Kendall, Otis H.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Mathematics; Surveying
Date: [1875]

Title: Philadelphia, December 1857. Sir, I beg leave to transmit to you the copy of a resolution adopted by the American Association at its last meeting, and to invite your advice and guidance in the preparation of an appropriate report to that body. I have supposed that the several topics which such a report should embrace, may fitly arrange themselves under the following heads
Identifier(s): text:1769; APSimg6461; Goodman Number: 154; 973 C683 No. 630
Description: Autographed circular letter from J[ohn] K. Kane to Prof. J[ohn] F[ries] Frazer dated December 21, 1857. Lists six general topics which the committee on the coast survey of the American Association for the Advancement of Science is expected to investigate. Also gives a list of the twenty members appointed by the association to the committee: J[ohn] K. Kane, Joseph G. Totten, Benjamin Peirce, John Torrey, Joseph Henry, J. F. Frazer, Wm. Chauvenet, F. A. P. Barnard, John Le Conte, W. M. Gillespie, F. H. Smith, W. H. C. Bartlett, Walcott Gibbs, Stephen Alexander, Lewis R. Gibbes, Joseph Winbock, James Phillips, William Ferrel, Edward Hitchcock, and James D. Dana. Signed in type by Joseph Lovering, permanent secretary of the association.
Creator: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Organizations; Surveying
Date: 1857

Title: General considerations showing the impolicy of the adoption by Congress of the recommendation of the secretary of the Navy to transfer the Coast and Geodetic Survey from the Treasury to the Navy Department
Identifier(s): text:312; APSimg6537; Goodman Number: 160; 973 C683 No. 76
Description: Broadside arguing against a proposed move of the Coast and Geodetic Survey from the Treasury to the Navy Department.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Surveying; Coastlines; Navies
Date: n.d.

Title: Entrance to freshman class. June 22, 1883. [Examination in] Euclid [and]...arithmetic
Identifier(s): text:844; APSimg6706; Goodman Number: 156
Description: Includes five questions in each section. From the papers of John K. Kane. Now housed among the Elisha Kent Kane papers.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: College of New Jersey (Princeton, N.J.)
Source: Elisha Kent Kane Papers. Printed Material. (Mss.B.K132.p); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.K132.p-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Examinations; Universities & colleges; Geometry; Mathematics
Date: 1883

Title: Essai physico-géométrique, contenant, 1°. La détermination du centre de gravité d'un secteur de cercle quelconque. 2°. La résolution géométrique du problême de la quadrature définie du cercle...
Identifier(s): text:781; APSimg6682; Goodman Number: 162
Description: Prospectus for a book published in 1778. Contains autograph signature of de Vausenville, the name Guillame Le Roberger used for his published works.; Hays reference #: Vol. 77, no. 78.
Creator: Vausenville, Le Rohberg-Herr de
Source: Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss.B.F85); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.F85-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Mathematics; Surveying
Date: 1778