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Unpublished paper, 'A new method of discovering the equations of caustics' by G H S [George Henry Sacheverell] Johnson

Reference number: AP/19/15

Date: 1835

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Johnson, Tutor of Queen's College Oxford, seeks a new method for calculating the polar equation of a caustic, using differential equations. Includes two diagrams of light rays being reflected in the text.

Subject: Mathematics / Geometry / Optics

Received 19 February 1835 by John George Children. Communicated by the Reverend Baden Powell.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'A new method of discovering the equations of caustics'.

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AP/19/15
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1835
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20 pages
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Manuscript

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George Henry Sacheverell Johnson

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George Henry Sacheverell Johnson, Unpublished paper, 'A new method of discovering the equations of caustics' by G H S [George Henry Sacheverell] Johnson, 1835, AP/19/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_19_15/unpublished-paper-a-new-method-of-discovering-the-equations-of-caustics-by-g-h-s-george-henry-sacheverell-johnson, accessed on 04 December 2024

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