- Title
- Mathematical manuscript of Samuel Griffin, 1783-1784
- Griffin, Samuel, 1762-1812, creator
- Massachusetts
- 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.
- .04 cubic feet (1 volume, 2 oversized folders)
- English
- Harvard students' notes.
Drawings.
Manuscript maps.
Pictorial works
pictorial works - Books and documents
- 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
- Harvard College (1780- ).
Harvard Hall (Cambridge, Mass.)--Pictorial works
Harvard University--Buildings--Pictorial works
Harvard University--Curricula--18th century
Mathematics--Study and teaching (higher)--Massachusetts--Cambridge--18th century
Geometry--Study and teaching (higher)--Massachusetts--Cambridge--18th century
Cambridge (Mass.)--Buildings, structures, etc--pictorial works - Donated in 1917 by Thomas Dillard Griffin, grandson of Samuel Griffin.
"A northerly perspective view from a window in Massachusetts Hall" and "A westerly perspective view of part of the town of Cambridge" were previously classified as HUV 2183.
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). - 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 in Virginia by a person whom he enslaved.
- Griffin, Samuel, 1762-1812. Mathematical manuscript of Samuel Griffin, 1783-1784. HUC 8784.353, Harvard University Archives.
- Collections of the Harvard University Archives
Harvard in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Colonial North American Project at Harvard University - Harvard University Archives
- 990056792590203941
- Title
- Mathematical manuscript of Samuel Griffin, 1783-1784
- Creator / Contributor
- Griffin, Samuel, 1762-1812, creator
- Place of Origin
- Massachusetts
- 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.|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.
- Extent
- .04 cubic feet (1 volume, 2 oversized folders)
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Harvard students' notes.
Drawings.
Manuscript maps.
Pictorial works
pictorial works - Digital Format
- Books and documents
- Contents
- 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
- Subjects
- Harvard College (1780- ).
Harvard Hall (Cambridge, Mass.)--Pictorial works
Harvard University--Buildings--Pictorial works
Harvard University--Curricula--18th century
Mathematics--Study and teaching (higher)--Massachusetts--Cambridge--18th century
Geometry--Study and teaching (higher)--Massachusetts--Cambridge--18th century
Cambridge (Mass.)--Buildings, structures, etc--pictorial works - Notes
- Donated in 1917 by Thomas Dillard Griffin, grandson of Samuel Griffin.
"A northerly perspective view from a window in Massachusetts Hall" and "A westerly perspective view of part of the town of Cambridge" were previously classified as HUV 2183.
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). - Biographical / Historical Note
- 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 in Virginia by a person whom he enslaved.
- Cite As
- Griffin, Samuel, 1762-1812. Mathematical manuscript of Samuel Griffin, 1783-1784. HUC 8784.353, Harvard University Archives.
- Series
- Collections of the Harvard University Archives
Harvard in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Colonial North American Project at Harvard University - Repository
- Harvard University Archives
- Record ID
- 990056792590203941
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