Letter, 'An improved solution of a problem in physical astronomy...also an appendix containing an easy method of obtaining the sums of many slowly converging series which arise in taking the fluents of binomial surds' from John Hellins to Nevil Maskelyne
Reference number: L&P/11/69
Date: 17 April 1797
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Subject: Astornomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An improved solution of a problem in physical astronomy; by which, swiftly converging series are obtained, which are useful in computing the perturbations of the motions of the Earth, Mars, and Venus, by their mutual attraction. To which is added an appendix, containing an easy method of obtaining the sums of many slowly converging series which arise in taking the fluents of binominal surds, &c. In a letter to the Rev. Nevil Maskelyne, D. D. F. R. S. and Astronomer Royal'
Read 28 June 1798
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- 17 April 1797
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John Hellins, Letter, 'An improved solution of a problem in physical astronomy...also an appendix containing an easy method of obtaining the sums of many slowly converging series which arise in taking the fluents of binomial surds' from John Hellins to Nevil Maskelyne, 17 April 1797, L&P/11/69, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_69/letter-an-improved-solution-of-a-problem-in-physical-astronomyalso-an-appendix-containing-an-easy-method-of-obtaining-the-sums-of-many-slowly-converging-series-which-arise-in-taking-the-fluents-of-binomial-surds-from-john-hellins-to-nevil-maskelyne, accessed on 08 September 2026
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