Samuel Ringgold Trigonometry notebook

Manuscript

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IdentifierMS 0103-01-01-001

CollectionSamuel Ringgold trigonometry notebook

Date1786-1792

Description

Notebook belonging to Samuel Ringgold with various lessons including astronomy, navigation, trigonometry, and an essay on industry. There are many beautiful hand-drawn diagrams. There is faint writing on both covers one of which indicate he used it while attending Washington College, there are also various dates in different parts of the book, one cover has 1787, a flyleaf of multiple signatures has 1786, while a clear flyleaf mentions President Washington and Maryland Governor John Eager Howard placing the date between 1790-1792.

Preferred Citation[item identification], Samuel Ringgold trigonometry notebook, MS 0103, Archives and Special Collections, Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland.

ProvenanceNotebook has been conserved with Japanese paper.

External Linkshttps://washcoll.libraryhost.com/repositories/3/resources/116

Subject(s)Astronomy
Education
Navigation
notebooks
Plane trigonometry
Ringgold, Samuel, 1770-1829