Paper, 'Florum geometricorum manipulus Regiae Societati exhibitus' ['Group of geometric flowers presented to the Royal Society'] by Guidone [Guido] Grandi
Reference number: CLP/1/45
Date: 1723
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Guido Grandi, Camaldolese abbot, defines the Clelia curve and provides 12 mathematical propositions about flower-like geometric figures. Figure from Philosophical Transactions attached.
Subject: Mathematics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Florum geometricorum manipulus Regiæ Societati exhibitus à D. Guidone Grandi abbate camaldulensi, Pisani lycæi mathematico, R. S. S.'
Read to the Royal Society on 24 October 1723.
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- CLP/1/45
- Earliest possible date
- 1723
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 13 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Guido Grandi, Paper, 'Florum geometricorum manipulus Regiae Societati exhibitus' ['Group of geometric flowers presented to the Royal Society'] by Guidone [Guido] Grandi, 1723, CLP/1/45, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_1_45/paper-florum-geometricorum-manipulus-regiae-societati-exhibitus-group-of-geometric-flowers-presented-to-the-royal-society-by-guidone-guido-grandi, accessed on 07 November 2025
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I. Florum geometricorum manipulus regiæ societati exhibitus à D. Guidone Grandi abbate camaldulensi, pisani lycæi mathematico, R. S. S. External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1723
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1722.0070
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Concerning a book 'Flores geometrici' by Guido Grandi, Abbot of the Camaldolese
Reference number: RBO/11/117
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Classified papers: volume 1 concerning 'Arithmetick, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry'
1669-1731 Reference number: CLP/1
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Dates: 1592 - 1741
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