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18 pages in Latin, 10 pages in English and 3 pages in French.

Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as De problemate quodam Algebraico, deque evolutione mechanicæ cujusdam curvæ inter infinitas hypermechanicas, quæ determinatæ æquationi satisfaciunt.'

Read 25 June 1767

Reference number
L&P/4/400
Earliest possible date
1767
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
31 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'An algebraical problem - evolution of a mechanical curve' by Pio Fantini, 1767, L&P/4/400, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_400/paper-an-algebraical-problem-evolution-of-a-mechanical-curve-by-pio-fantini, accessed on 07 February 2025

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