13 volumes of manuscript notes and calculations about magic squares.
Burnett Notebooks
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- Dates of Creationc1921-1924
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- Language of MaterialEnglish
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John Chaplyn Burnett was born in December 1863 to Charles Mountford Burnett MD and Emily Jane Chaplyn. He entered the Army in 1884 and became a Captain in 1893 and a Major in 1902. He received a DSO in 1900 and an OBE in 1919. He published 'Easy methods for the construction of magic squares', (London, 1936).
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