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Paper, 'The doctrine of combinations and alternations improv'd and compleated' by Major Edward Thornycroft

Reference number: CLP/1/7

Date: 1705

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Thornycroft writes on powers and indices of occurrences.

Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The doctrine of combinations and alternations, improv'd and compleated'.

Addressed to Mr [Abraham] de Moivre.

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CLP/1/7
Earliest possible date
1705
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
10 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'The doctrine of combinations and alternations improv'd and compleated' by Major Edward Thornycroft, 1705, CLP/1/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_1_7/paper-the-doctrine-of-combinations-and-alternations-improvd-and-compleated-by-major-edward-thornycroft, accessed on 12 January 2025

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