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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Of the rectification of the conic sections'

Read 8 July 1802

Reference number
L&P/12/35
Earliest possible date
19 March 1802
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
31 pages
Format
Manuscript

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John Hellins

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John Hellins, Paper, 'Of the rectification of the conic sections' by John Hellins, 19 March 1802, L&P/12/35, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_12_35/paper-of-the-rectification-of-the-conic-sections-by-john-hellins, accessed on 07 December 2024

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