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Letter, from [Claude] Comiers to Robert Hooke, dated at Paris

Reference number: EL/C2/6

Date: 25 April 1678

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This letter accompanies Comiers's book on duplication of the cube with some account of other mathematical works

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EL/C2/6
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25 April 1678
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2 pages
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Manuscript
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Claude Comiers

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Claude Comiers, Letter, from [Claude] Comiers to Robert Hooke, dated at Paris, 25 April 1678, EL/C2/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_c2_6/letter-from-claude-comiers-to-robert-hooke-dated-at-paris, accessed on 14 May 2025

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