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Prize question from the Royal Academy of Sciences

Reference number: CLP/17/58

Date: 1733

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'What is the best figure for an Ancre and the best way of forging it: and what is the best method of proving Ancres?'
Read to the Royal Society on 26 June 1735

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CLP/17/58
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1733
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2 pages
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Prize question from the Royal Academy of Sciences, 1733, CLP/17/58, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_17_58/prize-question-from-the-royal-academy-of-sciences, accessed on 08 November 2025

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