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Paper, 'Construction and analyisis of geometrical propositions...also determining the stability of ships' by George Atwood

Reference number: L&P/10/137

Date: 1795

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Contains two plates.

Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The construction and analysis of geometrical propositions, determining the positions assumed by homogeneal bodies which float freely, and at rest, on a fluid's surface; also determining the stability of ships, and of other floating bodies'

Read 18 February 1796

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L&P/10/137
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1795
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Ink on paper and two plates
Page extent
49 pages
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Manuscript

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George Atwood

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George Atwood, Paper, 'Construction and analyisis of geometrical propositions...also determining the stability of ships' by George Atwood, 1795, L&P/10/137, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_137/paper-construction-and-analyisis-of-geometrical-propositionsalso-determining-the-stability-of-ships-by-george-atwood, accessed on 12 October 2026

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