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Letter and paper, 'An account of his treatise on fluxions part II' by Colin MacLaurin to Martin Folkes

Reference number: L&P/1/176

Date: 05 February 1743

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Covering letter and paper.

Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The continuation of an account of a treatise of Fluxions, &c. Book II. by Colin McLaurin, Prof. Mathem. Edinburgh. F. R. S'.

Read 10 March 1743

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L&P/1/176
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05 February 1743
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Ink on paper
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17 pages
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Manuscript

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Colin MacLaurin

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Colin MacLaurin, Letter and paper, 'An account of his treatise on fluxions part II' by Colin MacLaurin to Martin Folkes, 05 February 1743, L&P/1/176, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_176/letter-and-paper-an-account-of-his-treatise-on-fluxions-part-ii-by-colin-maclaurin-to-martin-folkes, accessed on 05 December 2024

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