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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
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1723
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Ink on paper
Page extent
13 pages
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Manuscript

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Guido Grandi

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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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