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Paper, 'Of Sir Isaac Newton's second law of motion and on an engine for turning ovals' by William Ludlam

Reference number: L&P/7/157

Date: 1780

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The principal properties of the engine for turning ovals in wood or metal, and of the instrument for drawing ovals upon paper, demonstrated'

Read 4 May 1780

Reference number
L&P/7/157
Earliest possible date
1780
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Ink on paper
Page extent
40 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'Of Sir Isaac Newton's second law of motion and on an engine for turning ovals' by William Ludlam, 1780, L&P/7/157, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_157/paper-of-sir-isaac-newtons-second-law-of-motion-and-on-an-engine-for-turning-ovals-by-william-ludlam, accessed on 17 March 2026

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