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Paper, 'Of a general theorum for finding the length of any arc of any conic hyperbola by means of two elliptic areas' by John Landen

Reference number: L&P/6/98

Date: 1775

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Contains four mathematical figures.

Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An investigation of a general theorem for finding the length of any arc of any conic hyperbola, by means of two elliptic arcs with some other new and useful theorems deduced therefrom'

Read 23 March 1775

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L&P/6/98
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1775
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Ink on paper
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9 pages
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Manuscript

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John Landen, Paper, 'Of a general theorum for finding the length of any arc of any conic hyperbola by means of two elliptic areas' by John Landen, 1775, L&P/6/98, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_98/paper-of-a-general-theorum-for-finding-the-length-of-any-arc-of-any-conic-hyperbola-by-means-of-two-elliptic-areas-by-john-landen, accessed on 11 December 2024

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