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Plate 1, figures 1-2 showing parabolas. Publication and plate details upper right. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked '1809'.

Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On a remarkable application of Cotes's theorem' by John Frederick William Herschel.

Read to the Royal Society on 12 November 1812.

Reference number
PT/73/4/1
Earliest possible date
1812?
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Ink on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Drawing

Creator name

John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Drawing, parabolas by [John Frederick William Herschel], 1812?, PT/73/4/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_4_1/drawing-parabolas-by-john-frederick-william-herschel, accessed on 11 February 2025

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