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Paper, 'On a remarkable application of Cotes's theorem' by J F W [John Frederick William] Herschel

Reference number: PT/7/2

Date: 06 October 1812

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A binding error has resulted in the final page of PT/7/1 being inserted into the volume after page 4 of this manuscript. Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/73/4/1.

Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On a remarkable application of Cotes's theorem'.

Written by Herschel in Slough. Communicated by William Herschel. Read 12 November 1812.

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 1, 1832.

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PT/7/2
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06 October 1812
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14 pages
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John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Paper, 'On a remarkable application of Cotes's theorem' by J F W [John Frederick William] Herschel, 06 October 1812, PT/7/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_7_2/paper-on-a-remarkable-application-of-cotess-theorem-by-j-f-w-john-frederick-william-herschel, accessed on 14 December 2024

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