New material to transcribe: political fallacies and mathematics

Did anyone make a new year’s resolution to learn more about philosophy and improve their paleography skills? As always, we’re here to help!

There are now 75 boxes of material written by Jeremy Bentham available at our online Transcription Desk. We have kicked off the new year by uploading two new boxes of papers – ready for volunteers to read and transcribe.

Boxes 104 and 135 are the latest boxes and they contain 1,073 images in total. These documents concern vastly different subjects – Bentham’s views on mathematics and politics. Bentham proposed new methods of teaching mathematics and also attacked the misleading arguments used by British politicians in parliament.

More information on the contents of each of these boxes and access to the manuscripts can be found on the following pages:

Box 104 – political fallacies

Box 135 – mathematics

Users can also view pages from these boxes through the Untranscribed Manuscripts page.

Best of luck to anyone who decides to work on these new documents! Please feel free to contact us with any queries.