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Letter, 'Twenty cases of compound interest' from John Robertson to James West

Reference number: L&P/5/196

Date: 1770

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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter to James West, Esq; President of the Royal Society, containing the investigations of twenty cases of compound interest, by J. Robertson, Lib. R. S'

Read 13 December 1770

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L&P/5/196
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1770
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10 pages
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Manuscript

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John Robertson

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John Robertson, Letter, 'Twenty cases of compound interest' from John Robertson to James West, 1770, L&P/5/196, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_196/letter-twenty-cases-of-compound-interest-from-john-robertson-to-james-west, accessed on 21 May 2025

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