Paper, 'Archimedes's problem of King Hiero's crown' by Lord Viscount Mountjoy
Reference number: CLP/6/40
Date: 09 December 1685
Description
Lord Viscount Mountjoy [William Stewart?] presents his method for finding the volume of an irregularly shaped object. Mountjoy was the President of the Dublin Society at the time of writing.
Subject: Mathematics
Read to the Royal Society on 9 December 1685
- Reference number
- CLP/6/40
- Earliest possible date
- 09 December 1685
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Paper, 'Archimedes's problem of King Hiero's crown' by Lord Viscount Mountjoy, 09 December 1685, CLP/6/40, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_6_40/paper-archimedess-problem-of-king-hieros-crown-by-lord-viscount-mountjoy, accessed on 05 October 2024
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Classified papers: volume 6 concerning 'Staticks, Hydrostaticks, Hydraulicks, Hydrology'
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