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Includes two copies of the manuscript.

Subject: Mathematics / Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the mathematical theory of sound'.

Communicated by Prof W H [William Hallowes] Miller. Received by the Royal Society on 20 November 1858. Read 6 January 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 9, 1859.

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PT/60/8
Earliest possible date
1858
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Ink on paper
Page extent
88 pages
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Manuscript

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William Hallowes Miller

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William Hallowes Miller, Paper, 'On the mathematical theory of sound' by Rev S [Samuel] Earnshaw, 1858, PT/60/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_60_8/paper-on-the-mathematical-theory-of-sound-by-rev-s-samuel-earnshaw, accessed on 12 January 2025

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