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Paper, 'Of the antiquity of figures' by Johann Friedrich Weidler

Reference number: L&P/1/300

Date: 1744

Description

Contains three plates with five figures.

Subject: Antiquities

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a dissertation published in Latin by Dr. Weidler, F. R. S. in the year 1727, concerning the vulgar numeral figures: As also some remarks upon an inscription, cut formerly in a window belonging to the Parish Church of Rumsey in Hampshire'

Read 7 June 1744

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L&P/1/300
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1744
Physical description
Ink on paper and three plates
Page extent
18 pages
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Manuscript

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Johann Friedrich Weidler

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Johann Friedrich Weidler, Paper, 'Of the antiquity of figures' by Johann Friedrich Weidler, 1744, L&P/1/300, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_300/paper-of-the-antiquity-of-figures-by-johann-friedrich-weidler, accessed on 15 July 2025

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