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Paper, 'Of rotary motion' by John Landen

Reference number: L&P/8/139

Date: 1785

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Contains plate.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Of the rotatory motion of a body of any form whatever, revolving, without restraint, about any axis passing through its center of gravity'

Read 17 March 1785

Reference number
L&P/8/139
Earliest possible date
1785
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
25 pages
Format
Manuscript

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John Landen

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John Landen, Paper, 'Of rotary motion' by John Landen, 1785, L&P/8/139, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_139/paper-of-rotary-motion-by-john-landen, accessed on 22 April 2025

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