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Heid. Hs. 4028: Nachlass Moritz Benedikt Cantor (1829-1920; Professor Der Mathematik in Heidelberg) Heid. Hs. 4028: Nachlass Moritz Benedikt Cantor (1829-1920; Professor der Mathematik in Heidelberg) Gliederung : I. Werke I – 1. Manuskripte I – 2. Gedruckte Werke (Abhandlungen, Vorträge, Artikel) I – 3. Rezensionen II. Korrespondenz III. (Lebens)dokumente IV. Sammlung IV – 1. Abhandlungen und Rezensionen über Cantor IV - 2. Abhandlungen / Rezensionen über Cantors Werk IV – 3. Texte anderer Autoren IV – 4. Varia I. Werke I – 1. Manuskripte Signatur Manuskript Heid. Hs. 4028 ... I – 1,1 „In Rom und Florenz. Florenz 4. Copernicana. Brief von Castelli an Dini.” [Notizheft, ca. 10x16 cm, 40 beschriebene S.] I – 1,2 „Gedrucktes zur gel. Literatur. Zur Arbeit in Florenz. Florenz IV.“ [Notizheft, ca. 10x16,5 cm, 28 beschriebene S., 8 lose Notizblätter] I – 1,3 „Feststellen und erfragen. In Florenz zu erfragen. Bei Favaro zu erfragen.“ [Notizheft, ca. 10x16,5 cm, 45 beschriebene S.] I – 1,4 Liceti und Verwandtes [Notizheft, ca. 10x16cm, 7 beschriebene S.] I – 1,5 Zu 1632/33. Gassendi aus Paris. Diodati nach Engld. u. zurück. ... nach Frankreich. (Bern.2) [Notizheft, ca. 10x16cm, 47 beschriebene S.] I – 1,6 In prandio Oct. 13.83. ; z. 2. Band [Notizheft, ca. 10x16cm, 32 beschriebene S.] I – 1,7 Francq-Moretus 7/11 07. XX Viviani quinto libro d’Euclide. Auszüge aus Briefen an Diodati 1634-38. Zugehörige Notizen. [Notizheft, ca. 10x16cm, 46 beschriebene S.] I – 1,8 Bei der Arbeit [Notizheft, ca. 10x16cm, 10 beschriebene S.] I – 1,9 Bei der Arbeit – Jan 9.98 [Notizheft, ca. 10x16cm, 42 beschriebene S.] I – 1,10 ohne Beschriftung ... S. 1: Unicursalcurven [Notizheft, ca. 10,5x16,5cm, 64 beschriebene S.] I – 1,11 ohne Beschriftung ... Blatt 3: Erhalten an Silber ... [Notizheft, ca. 10x16cm, 27 beschriebene S.] I – 1,12 Das Urtheil von 1616. Seine Bedeutung und seine Consequenzen [Notizheft 16,5 x 20,5 cm, 7 beschriebene S., 1 loses Notizblatt] I – 1,13 Marcus Marci [Notizheft, 16,5 x 20,5 cm, 10 beschriebene S., 5 lose Notizblätter] I – 1,14 Nach dem 21. Juni 1633 [Notizheft, 16,5 x 20 cm, 48 beschriebene S., 2 lose Notizblätter] I – 1,15 ohne Beschriftung. Blatt 2: „Dialoge“(?) [Notizheft, 16,5 x 20 cm, 33 beschriebene S., 5 lose Notizblätter] I – 1,16 Riccioli und Verwandtes [Notizheft, 16,5 x 20 cm, 39 beschriebene S., 1 Notizblatt] I – 1,17 Vor den Dialogen bes. 1624-32. G X Tycho gegen Ingoli B … [Notizheft, 17 x 20 cm, 61 beschriebene S., 1 Notizblatt] I – 1,18 Zu Suor Maria Celeste [Notizheft, 17 x 20 cm, 5 beschriebene S.] I – 1,19 Galilei. Methode. Allgemeines. Vorlesungen. Literatur. Bio… [Notizheft, 16,5 x 20 cm, 11 beschriebene S., 11 losen Notizblätter] I – 1,20 Galilei. Nach dem Verbot des Copernikan. Systems bis zu den Dialogen. 1616-1632. [Notizheft, 16,5 x 20 cm, 66 beschriebene S., 2 losen Notizblätter] I – 1,21 Galilei und sein Kampf. Zu Band II. Scheiner als Denunciant [Notizheft, 16,5 x 20,5 cm, 12 beschriebene S., 6 lose Notizblätter] I – 1,22 Galilei. Schluß. 1639-1642. Allg. Übersicht... [Notizheft, 16,5 x 20 cm, ca. 136 beschriebene S.] I – 1,23 Galilei. Stoß (?). Zum Index f. Favard [Notizheft, 16 x 20,5 cm, 5 beschriebene S.] I – 1,24 Galilei. Dialoge. ... Copernicana. [Notizheft, 16,5 x 20 cm, ca. 176 beschriebene S., ca. 8 lose Notizblätter] I – 1,25 Galilei. Dialoge, Proceß und Nachspiel. D (... Dialoge II). [Notizheft, 16 x 20 cm, 85 beschriebene S., ca. 16 lose Notizblätter] I – 1,26 Material zur Vorrede von Band IV [17 lose Blätter] I – 1,27 Dialoge und Proceß. Vorarbeiten [lose Blätter, 36 beschriebene Seiten] I – 1,28 Notizen [lose Blätter, ca. 47 beschriebene Seiten] I – 1,29 I (Notizen) [lose Blätter, 6 beschriebene Seiten] I – 1,30 Dritte Vorlesung. Die Dialoge [lose Blätter, 7 beschriebene Seiten] I – 1,31 Varia für Vorlesung III u. IV brauchten nachträglich zu ... [lose Blätter, 22 beschriebene Seiten] I – 1,32 Notizen ohne bes. Kennzeichnung [lose Blätter, ca. 54 beschriebene Seiten] I – 1,33 41 – Schluß [Notizen u. Skizzen] [lose Blätter, 17 beschriebene Seiten] I – 1,34 Notizen ohne bes. Kennzeichnung [lose Blätter, 5 beschriebene Seiten] I – 1,35 Notizen ohne bes. Kennzeichnung [lose Blätter, 38 beschriebene Seiten] I – 1,36 Notizen ohne bes. Kennzeichnung [5 lose Blätter] I – 1,37 Notizen ohne bes. Kennzeichnung [6 lose Blätter] I – 1,38 Notizen ohne bes. Kennzeichnung [6 lose Blätter], darunter: Namenslisten, Briefentwurf, Wörterverzeichnis Italiensich- Deutsch I – 1,39 Notizen ohne besondere Kennzeichnung [1 Blatt] I – 1,40 Campori. Notizen [lose Blätter, 18 beschriebene Seiten] I – 1,41 Notizen ohne bes. Kennzeichnung [lose Blätter, 5 beschriebene Seiten] I – 1,42 Notizen ohne bes. Kennzeichnung [88 lose Blätter] I – 1,43 Zur Bearbeitung und Kritik Galileis und der Galileiana [3 lose Blätter] I – 1,44 Noch einmal der Process des Galilei [1 Blatt] I – 1,45 Galilei Notizen ... über Diversa [9 lose Blätter] I – 1,46 Galilei. Vermischte Notizen [16 lose Blätter] I – 1,47 Zum ausgearbeiteten Manuscript [28 lose Blätter] I – 1,48 Kapitel Mitbewerber [1 Blatt] I - 1,49 zu Kapitel VII. copiert und korrigiert 11/12/00 [125 lose Blätter] I – 1,50 Korrekturbögen zu Cantor: Geschichte der Mathematik II. X. die Zeit von 1300-1400 ?? I – 1,51 Manuskriptblock, Bl. 4-182. I – 1,52 Euler ... 3 Bl. I – 1,53 Rede an die nationalliberale Wählerversammlung in Heidelberg, 02.02.1890 [1 Blatt] I – 2. Gedruckte Werke (Abhandlungen, Vorträge, Artikel, ... ) (alphabetisch nach Titel) Signatur Titel Quelle, Anmerkungen Heid. Hs. 4028... I – 2,1 Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der In: Jenaer Literaturzeitung, Nr. 20, Mathematik, Heft II, 25.04.1879, 3 S. 17.05.1879, S. 271-273. [Buchankündigung] I – 2,2 Die Actenfälschung im Processe gegen In: Die Gegenwart. Wochenschrift für Galileo Galilei Literatur, Kunst und öffentliches Leben, XII. Bd., Nr. 44, 03.11.1877, S. 281-285. I – 2,3 Die Actenfälschung im Processe gegen In: Die Gegenwart, Bd. XII, Nr. 45, vom Galileo Galilei (Schluß) 10.11.1877, S. 295-297. I – 2,4 Ahmed und sein Buch über die Druckfahne mit Anmerkungen + Proportionen, 1 Bogen Sonderdruck aus: Bibliotheca Mathematica, N.F. 2, 1888, S. 7-9. I – 2,5 Albrecht Dürer als Schriftsteller, 1888. Aus: Neue Heidelberger Jahrbücher 1.1891, Heft 1, S. 17-31. I – 2,6 Algebra; Zahlentheorie (Abschnitt XX, S. Druckfahnen von: ... 113-198). Kombinatorik (Abschnitt XXI, S. [199]-216. I – 2,7 Archimedes, S. 1449-1452 Lexikonartikel aus Pauly´s Real- Encyclopädie der classischen Altertuhmswissenschaft, 2. Aufl., Stuttgart, 1866. I – 2,8 Aus Universitätskreisen Druckfahnen aus: Nord und Süd, Bd. XXVII, Heft 81, 1883, S. 343-350. I – 2,9 Babylonische Quadratwurzeln und Aus: Zeitschrift für Assyrologie und Kubikwurzeln verwandte Gebiete, Bd. XXI, 1907/08, S. 110-115. I – 2,10 Beiträge zur Lebens-geschichte von Carl Friedrich Gauss, gehalten 1900 auf dem Congrés d’histoire des sciences, Paris, 20 S. I – 2,11 Bemerkungen zu einem Aufsatz über In: Germania, Zentralblatt für die Kinderversorgungsanstalten, 2 Sp. volkswirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Interessen Deutschlands, Nr. 17, 23.04.1856, S. 151. I – 2,12 Blaise Pascal Aus: Preußische Jahrbücher, Bd. XXXII, S. 211-237. I – 2,13 Brano di lettera indirizzata dal sig. Aus: Annali di Matematica pura ed applicata Maurizio Cantor a D. B. Boncompagni, in … tom IV, No. 5, S. 256. data di „Heidelberg 8 Septembre“ (1862) I – 2,14 C. I. Gerhardt, 3 S. Aus: Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematikervereinigung. VIII,1, 1900, S. 28-30. I – 2,15 Cardinal Nicolaus von Cusa, 8 Bögen (S. Druckfahnen mit Anmerkungen + 1-15) + 1 Heft Sonderdruck aus: Nord und Süd, ..., S. 188-202. I – 2,16 Carl Friedrich Gauss Aus: Neue Heidelberger Jahrbücher, ..., S. 234-255. I – 2,17 Die Coppernicus-Sternwarte zu Thorn, 2 In: Beilage zur Thorner Zeitung, Nr. 109, S. vom 11.05.1879 [ohne Verfasserangabe, evtl. von Cantor (?)] I – 2,18 Die Dividenden-Vertheilung bei den In: Bremer Handelsblatt 33.1883, Nr. 1635, Lebensversicherungs-Gesellschaften, vom 10.02.1883, S. 48-51. 1883. I – 2,19 Differentialgleichungen (100. Kapitel, S. Druckfahne von: ... 487-492) I – 2,20 Drei Briefe von Lagrange Aus: Abhandlung ... Jg. XXIV.1879, S. 182- 184. I – 2,21 Einfache Construction der Aus: ..., Kleinere Mitteilungen XXVI, S. [428]- Berührungslinien an die Lemniscate. 430 I – 2,22 Einführung in die Geschichte der Aus: Verhandlungen des III. Internationalen Mathematik; Hinweis auf neue Mathematiker-Kongresses, Heidelberg 1904. Resultate. I – 2,23 Einige Sätze zur Theorie der Aus: ..., Kap. VIII, S. 88-96, Druckfahnen hyperbolischen Functionen I – 2,24 Der Erfinder des Wilsonschen Satzes Aus: …, S. 412 I – 2,25 Ermanno Schapira. Necrologio, 4 S. Aus: Bollettino di bibliografia e storia delle scienze matematiche, 1898 I – 2,26 Ferdinand Schweins und Otto Hesse Druckfahnen der Seiten 120 – 133 mit Korrekturen und Sonderdruck aus „Heidelberger Professoren aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, 1903, S. [223]-242. I – 2,27 Feuer- und Lebensversicherung. In: Beilage zur Karlsruher Zeitung Nr. 15 Vortrag, gehalten im Volksbildungs- (18.01.1881), Karlsruher Zeitung Nr. 16 Verein zu Heidelberg, den 12.01.1881 (19.01.1881), Beilagen zur Karlsruher Zeitung Nr. 17-20 (20.-23.01.1881) I – 2,28 Fürst Baldassare Boncompagni Ludovisi. Aus: Zs. für Mathematik und Physik, 39. Jg. Ein Nachruf. 1894, S. 201-203. I – 2,29 Funktionsgleichungen mit drei von Aus: Zs. für Mathematik und Physik, 41. Jg. einander unabhängigen Veränderlichen 1896, 3. Heft, S. 161-163. I – 2,30 Galileo Galilei Aus: Grenzbote II, 1865, S. 422-436. I – 2,31 Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann, 5 S. Aus: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie I – 2,32 Das Gesetz im Zufall, 1877, 48 S. In: Sammlung gemeinverständlicher wissenschaftlicher Vorträge, XII. Serie, Heft 275 I – 2,33 Gottfried Friedlein +. Ein Nekrolog Aus: Abhandlung ..., Jg.
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