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Unpublished appendix, 'Remarks on a passage in report of the Council of the Royal Astronomical Society at their last annual meeting, 14 February 1834' by James Ivory

Reference number: AP/18/11

Date: 27 May 1834

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Remarks regarding comments made on [Adrien-Marie] Legendre during a Royal Astronomical Society annual meeting, the report of which Ivory happened to read. He quotes [Siméon Denis] Poisson's work on mechanics.

Subject: Fluid mechanics

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AP/18/11
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27 May 1834
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9 pages
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James Ivory

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James Ivory, Unpublished appendix, 'Remarks on a passage in report of the Council of the Royal Astronomical Society at their last annual meeting, 14 February 1834' by James Ivory, 27 May 1834, AP/18/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_18_11/unpublished-appendix-remarks-on-a-passage-in-report-of-the-council-of-the-royal-astronomical-society-at-their-last-annual-meeting-14-february-1834-by-james-ivory, accessed on 13 September 2026

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