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Paper, 'An essay towards the calculus of functions' by C [Charles] Babbage

Reference number: PT/9/23

Date: 1815

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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An essay towards the calculus of functions'.

Communicated by W H [William Hyde] Wollaston. Read 15 June 1815.

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/9/23
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1815
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46 pages
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Manuscript

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Charles Babbage

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Charles Babbage, Paper, 'An essay towards the calculus of functions' by C [Charles] Babbage, 1815, PT/9/23, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_9_23/paper-an-essay-towards-the-calculus-of-functions-by-c-charles-babbage, accessed on 17 April 2026

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