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Paper, 'On the analytical theory of the attraction of the solids bounded by surfaces of a hypothetical class including the ellipsoid' by W F [William Fishburn] Donkin

Reference number: PT/60/1

Date: 01 September 1859

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Subject: Physics / Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the analytical theory of the attraction of solids bounded by surfaces of a hypothetical class including the ellipsoid'.

Received by the Royal Society on 2 September 1859. Read 8 December 1859.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 10, 1860.

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PT/60/1
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01 September 1859
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Ink on paper
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25 pages
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Manuscript

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William Fishburn Donkin

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William Fishburn Donkin, Paper, 'On the analytical theory of the attraction of the solids bounded by surfaces of a hypothetical class including the ellipsoid' by W F [William Fishburn] Donkin, 01 September 1859, PT/60/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_60_1/paper-on-the-analytical-theory-of-the-attraction-of-the-solids-bounded-by-surfaces-of-a-hypothetical-class-including-the-ellipsoid-by-w-f-william-fishburn-donkin, accessed on 17 March 2025

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