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Letter, 'Concerning the writer's book criticising a treatise' from Johann Andreas von Segner to Cromwell Mortimer

Reference number: L&P/1/41

Date: 1 September 1741

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4 pages Latin, 2 pages English translation.

Subject: Mathematics

Read 25 January 1742.

Reference number
L&P/1/41
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1 September 1741
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Ink on paper
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6 pages
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Manuscript

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Johann Andreas von Segner

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Johann Andreas von Segner, Letter, 'Concerning the writer's book criticising a treatise' from Johann Andreas von Segner to Cromwell Mortimer, 1 September 1741, L&P/1/41, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_41/letter-concerning-the-writers-book-criticising-a-treatise-from-johann-andreas-von-segner-to-cromwell-mortimer, accessed on 15 September 2024

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