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Treatise considering how mathematicians describe geometric curves.
Read to the Royal Society on 12 January 1720.

Reference number
CLP/22ii/4
Earliest possible date
1720
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
6 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Colin MacLaurin

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Colin MacLaurin, Paper, 'Geometria organica sive descriptio linearum...' [Instrumental geometry, or linear description] by Colin Maclaurin, 1720, CLP/22ii/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_22ii_4/paper-geometria-organica-sive-descriptio-linearum-instrumental-geometry-or-linear-description-by-colin-maclaurin, accessed on 05 November 2024

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