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Geometry -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History -- Sources

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Jock Nickerson notes

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230335397]
Identifier: MSS 372
Scope and Contents

Handwritten book containing notes on geometry and on geometrical figures. The book includes many drawings of such figures and calculations based on them. The date of the materials is uncertain. Nickerson lived his last few years with Rey L. Pratt. Nickerson claimed to have known the LDS Church leaders, Joseph Smith and Parley P. Pratt. A brief essay is included which speculates on this claim.

Dates: approximately 1900
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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