Letter, 'A new method of computing the value of a slowly converging series of which all the terms are affirmative' from John Hellins to Nevil Maskelyne
Reference number: L&P/11/48
Date: 1798
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Subject: Mathematics
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A new method of computing the value a slowly converging series, of which all the terms are affirmative. By the Rev. John Hellins, F. R. S. and Vicar of Potter's-Pury, in Northamptonshire. In a letter to the Rev. Dr. Maskelyne, F. R. S. and Astronomer Royal'
Read 8 March 1798
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John Hellins, Letter, 'A new method of computing the value of a slowly converging series of which all the terms are affirmative' from John Hellins to Nevil Maskelyne, 1798, L&P/11/48, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_48/letter-a-new-method-of-computing-the-value-of-a-slowly-converging-series-of-which-all-the-terms-are-affirmative-from-john-hellins-to-nevil-maskelyne, accessed on 05 December 2025
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IX. A new method of computing the value a slowly converging series, of which all the terms are affirmative. By the Rev. John Hellins, F. R. S. and Vicar of Potter's-Pury, in Northamptonshire. In a letter to the Rev. Dr. Maskelyne, F. R. S. and Astronomer Royal External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1798
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1798.0011
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