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Paper, 'Responsio ad animadversiones ad Davidis Gregorii Catenariam' [Response to observations of David Gregory's catenary] by unknown author

Reference number: CLP/1/24

Date: 1699

Description

In response to a criticism in Acta Eruditorum (1699), the author offers a proof of one of his lemmas relating to the properties of a curve known as catenary. Includes two diagrams in the text.

Subject: Geometry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Responsio ad animadversionem ad Davidis Gregorii Catenariam, act. Eruditorum lipsiæ. Mense Februarii an. 1699'.

Read to the Royal Society on 24 January 1699.

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CLP/1/24
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1699
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'Responsio ad animadversiones ad Davidis Gregorii Catenariam' [Response to observations of David Gregory's catenary] by unknown author, 1699, CLP/1/24, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_1_24/paper-responsio-ad-animadversiones-ad-davidis-gregorii-catenariam-response-to-observations-of-david-gregorys-catenary-by-unknown-author, accessed on 20 May 2026

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