Paper, 'A new method of comparing curvilineal areas' by John Landen

Reference number: L&P/5/38

Date: 1768

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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A specimen of a new method of comparing curvilineal areas; by which many such areas may be compared as have not yet appeared to be comparable by any other method'

Read 9 June 1768

Reference number: L&P/5/38
Earliest possible date: 1768
Physical description: Ink on paper
Page extent: 7 pages
Format: Manuscript

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John Landen, Paper, 'A new method of comparing curvilineal areas' by John Landen, 1768, L&P/5/38, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_38/paper-a-new-method-of-comparing-curvilineal-areas-by-john-landen, accessed on 23 April 2025

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XXVI. A specimen of a new method of comparing curvilineal areas; by which many such areas may be compared as have not yet appeared to be comparable by any other method External link, opens in new tab.

Date: 31st December 1768

DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1768.0026

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Letters and Papers of a scientific nature submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1741-1806 Reference number: L&P
Decade 5 of scientific letters and papers submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1768-1772 Reference number: L&P/5

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