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Unpublished paper, 'On the theory of waves' by Andrew John Robertson

Reference number: AP/34/20

Date: July 1852

Description

Robertson shares mathematical formulae relating to the breaking of waves.

Subject: Mathematics / Hydrology

Received 6 September 1852. Read 25 November 1852. Communicated by Henry Moseley.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 6 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On the theory of waves'.

Reference number
AP/34/20
Earliest possible date
July 1852
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
42 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Andrew John Robertson

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Andrew John Robertson, Unpublished paper, 'On the theory of waves' by Andrew John Robertson, July 1852, AP/34/20, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_34_20/unpublished-paper-on-the-theory-of-waves-by-andrew-john-robertson, accessed on 16 June 2025

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