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Paper, on the quadrature of the circle by St George Ashe

Reference number: EL/A/34

Date: 10 March 1685

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Ashe presented his theory on the squaring of the circle in two discourses to the Philosophical Society of Dublin
Mathemathical formulae and figures are attached

Subject: Mathematics/ Geometry
Read to the Royal Society on 8 April and 12 May 1685

Reference number
EL/A/34
Earliest possible date
10 March 1685
Page extent
14 pages
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Manuscript

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St George Ashe

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St George Ashe, Paper, on the quadrature of the circle by St George Ashe, 10 March 1685, EL/A/34, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_a_34/paper-on-the-quadrature-of-the-circle-by-st-george-ashe, accessed on 15 May 2025

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