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Paper, 'Description of a new instrument for performing mechanically the involution and evolution of numbers' by Peter M [Mark] Roget

Reference number: PT/9/2

Date: 1814

Description

41 manuscript pages and three plates showing graduated scales, a circular scale, and a series of roots, powers, and exponents.

Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Description of a new instrument for performing mechanically the involution and evolution of numbers'.

Communicated by Will [William] Hyde Wollaston. Read 17 November 1814.

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 2, 1833.

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PT/9/2
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1814
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Ink on paper
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44 pages
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Manuscript

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Peter Mark Roget

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Peter Mark Roget, Paper, 'Description of a new instrument for performing mechanically the involution and evolution of numbers' by Peter M [Mark] Roget, 1814, PT/9/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_9_2/paper-description-of-a-new-instrument-for-performing-mechanically-the-involution-and-evolution-of-numbers-by-peter-m-mark-roget, accessed on 16 July 2025

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