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Paper, 'On Sir Isaac Newton's five diverging parabolas' by Edmund Stone

Reference number: L&P/1/164

Date: 1742

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Featuring 23 mathematical figures/graphs.

Subject: Mathematics

Read 18 February 1742.

Reference number
L&P/1/164
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1742
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Ink on paper
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22 pages
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Manuscript

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Edmund Stone

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Edmund Stone, Paper, 'On Sir Isaac Newton's five diverging parabolas' by Edmund Stone, 1742, L&P/1/164, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_164/paper-on-sir-isaac-newtons-five-diverging-parabolas-by-edmund-stone, accessed on 10 July 2025

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