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Paper, 'Of the impossibility of vortices, account of the treatise' by Pierre de Sigorne

Reference number: L&P/1/73

Date: 1742

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Subject: Mathematics/Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A physico-mathematical demonstration of the impossibility and insufficiency of vortices'

Read 25 March 1742.

Reference number
L&P/1/73
Earliest possible date
1742
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Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'Of the impossibility of vortices, account of the treatise' by Pierre de Sigorne, 1742, L&P/1/73, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_73/paper-of-the-impossibility-of-vortices-account-of-the-treatise-by-pierre-de-sigorne, accessed on 14 December 2024

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