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Paper, 'On the resolution of attractive powers' by Edward Waring

Reference number: L&P/9/133

Date: 1789

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Contains plate.

Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'On the resolution of attractive powers'

Read 28 May 1789

Reference number
L&P/9/133
Earliest possible date
1789
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
11 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Edward Waring

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Edward Waring, Paper, 'On the resolution of attractive powers' by Edward Waring, 1789, L&P/9/133, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_133/paper-on-the-resolution-of-attractive-powers-by-edward-waring, accessed on 24 June 2025

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