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Referee's report by Thomas Stephens Davies, on a paper 'A method of proving the three leading properties of the ellipse and the hyperbola from a well-known property of the circle' by Jonathan Frederick Pollock

Reference number: RR/1bis/35

Date: 07 March 1843

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Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The ellipse and hyperbola are not clearly defined. The methods are elementary.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

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RR/1bis/35
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07 March 1843
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Stephens Davies

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Thomas Stephens Davies, Referee's report by Thomas Stephens Davies, on a paper 'A method of proving the three leading properties of the ellipse and the hyperbola from a well-known property of the circle' by Jonathan Frederick Pollock, 07 March 1843, RR/1bis/35, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_1bis_35/referees-report-by-thomas-stephens-davies-on-a-paper-a-method-of-proving-the-three-leading-properties-of-the-ellipse-and-the-hyperbola-from-a-well-known-property-of-the-circle-by-jonathan-frederick-pollock, accessed on 06 December 2025

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