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Description

Contains two plates.

Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The application of a method of differences to the species of series whose sums are obtained by Mr. Landen, by the Help of impossible quantities'

Read 13 February 1806

Reference number
L&P/12/123
Earliest possible date
1806
Physical description
Ink on paper and two plates
Page extent
40 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Benjamin Gompertz

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Benjamin Gompertz, Paper, 'The application of a method of differences' by Benjamin Gompertz, 1806, L&P/12/123, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_12_123/paper-the-application-of-a-method-of-differences-by-benjamin-gompertz, accessed on 24 June 2025

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