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Letter, from Robert Simson [to the Royal Society]

Reference number: EL/S2/47

Date: 04 January 1723

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Wishes to know if there are any new series deduced from Gregory's series in order to find the arch of a circle from the tangent; asks if the lost proposition in 'Pappus Alexandrinus' had been recovered

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EL/S2/47
Earliest possible date
04 January 1723
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3 pages
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Manuscript
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Robert Simson

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Robert Simson, Letter, from Robert Simson [to the Royal Society], 04 January 1723, EL/S2/47, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_s2_47/letter-from-robert-simson-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 11 April 2026

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