Unpublished paper, 'On a simple geometrical construction, giving a very approximate quadrature of the circle' by Charles M Willich
Reference number: AP/37/35
Date: 1855
Description
Willich shares his proposed solution to the problem of squaring the circle.
Includes one geometrical figure in the text.
Subject: Mathematics / Geometry
Received 17 April 1855. Communicated by [George Gabriel] Stokes.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 7 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On a simple geometrical construction, giving a very approximate quadrature of the circle'.
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- 1855
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- 2 pages
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Charles M Willich
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Charles M Willich, Unpublished paper, 'On a simple geometrical construction, giving a very approximate quadrature of the circle' by Charles M Willich, 1855, AP/37/35, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_37_35/unpublished-paper-on-a-simple-geometrical-construction-giving-a-very-approximate-quadrature-of-the-circle-by-charles-m-willich, accessed on 08 November 2024
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Date: 31st December 1856
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1854.0090
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Archived papers: volume 37, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1853-1855
1853-1855 Reference number: AP/37
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George Gabriel Stokes
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