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Paper, 'Archimedes's problem of King Hiero's crown' by Lord Viscount Mountjoy

Reference number: CLP/6/40

Date: 09 December 1685

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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

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CLP/6/40
Earliest possible date
09 December 1685
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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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