Paper, 'Dr Halley's quadature of the circle improved' by John Hellins

Reference number: L&P/10/83

Date: 30 April 1794

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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Dr. Halley's quadrature of the circle improved: being a transformation of his series for that purpose to others which converge by the powers of 80'

Read 15 May 1794

Reference number: L&P/10/83
Earliest possible date: 30 April 1794
Physical description: Ink on paper
Page extent: 6 pages
Format: Manuscript

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John Hellins, Paper, 'Dr Halley's quadature of the circle improved' by John Hellins, 30 April 1794, L&P/10/83, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_83/paper-dr-halleys-quadature-of-the-circle-improved-by-john-hellins, accessed on 20 May 2026

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Date: 31st December 1794

DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1794.0019

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Letters and Papers of a scientific nature submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1741-1806 Reference number: L&P
Decade 10 of scientific letters and papers submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1792-1796 Reference number: L&P/10

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