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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A disquisition concerning certain fluents, which are assignable by the arcs of the conic sections; wherein are investigated some new and useful theorems for computing such fluents'

Read 6 June 1771

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L&P/5/246
Earliest possible date
1771
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
11 pages
Format
Manuscript

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John Landen

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John Landen, Paper, 'On fluents and assignable by arcs of conic sections' by John Landen, 1771, L&P/5/246, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_246/paper-on-fluents-and-assignable-by-arcs-of-conic-sections-by-john-landen, accessed on 10 December 2024

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