Drawing, parabolas by [John Frederick William Herschel]
Reference number: PT/73/4/1
Date: 1812?

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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.
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- PT/73/4/1
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- 1812?
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- Drawing
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On a remarkable application of Cotes’s theorem External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1832
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0258
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Date: 31st December 1813
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1813.0005
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Paper, 'On a remarkable application of Cotes's theorem' by J F W [John Frederick William] Herschel
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1807-1833
1807-1833 Reference number: PT/73 -
Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 103
1811-1813 Reference number: PT/73/4
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