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Paper, 'Conjectures as to Cardan's rule having been discovered by Scipio Terreus' by Francis Maseres

Reference number: L&P/7/143

Date: 1780

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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A conjecture concerning the method by which Cardan's rules for resolving the cubic equation x3-qx=r in the first case of it (or when r is greater than 29vq—3v3, or rr—4 is greater than q3—27) were probably discovered by Scipio Ferreus, of Bononia, or whoever else was the first inventor of them'

Read 24 February 1780

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L&P/7/143
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1780
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26 pages
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Francis Maseres

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Francis Maseres, Paper, 'Conjectures as to Cardan's rule having been discovered by Scipio Terreus' by Francis Maseres, 1780, L&P/7/143, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_143/paper-conjectures-as-to-cardans-rule-having-been-discovered-by-scipio-terreus-by-francis-maseres, accessed on 15 January 2026

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