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Paper, 'Of the application of Dr Saunderson's therem to a curious question in chronology' by James Horsfall

Reference number: L&P/5/20

Date: 1768

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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The application of Dr. Saunderson's theorem for solving unlimited equations, to a curious question in chronology'

Read 24 March 1768

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L&P/5/20
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James Horsfall, Paper, 'Of the application of Dr Saunderson's therem to a curious question in chronology' by James Horsfall, 1768, L&P/5/20, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_20/paper-of-the-application-of-dr-saundersons-therem-to-a-curious-question-in-chronology-by-james-horsfall, accessed on 17 May 2025

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