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Paper, Account of a book lately published at Paris concerning the quadrature of the circle by Monsieur Mallement de Messange

Reference number: CLP/22i/23

Date: 19 September 1686

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Discusses de Messange's book 'Le grand & fameux probleme de la quadrature du cercle resolu geometriuement par le cercle & la ligne droite'. Read to the Royal Society on 22 December 1686.

Subject: Mathematics, Geometry

Reference number
CLP/22i/23
Earliest possible date
19 September 1686
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, Account of a book lately published at Paris concerning the quadrature of the circle by Monsieur Mallement de Messange, 19 September 1686, CLP/22i/23, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_22i_23/paper-account-of-a-book-lately-published-at-paris-concerning-the-quadrature-of-the-circle-by-monsieur-mallement-de-messange, accessed on 19 January 2026

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