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Referee's report by Thomas Archer Hirst, on a paper 'On the mechanical performance of logical inference' by William Stanley Jevons

Reference number: RR/7/36

Date: 23 April 1870

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. It is 'written with great clearness' and contains valuable historical information.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1870].

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RR/7/36
Earliest possible date
23 April 1870
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Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Thomas Archer Hirst

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Thomas Archer Hirst, Referee's report by Thomas Archer Hirst, on a paper 'On the mechanical performance of logical inference' by William Stanley Jevons, 23 April 1870, RR/7/36, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_36/referees-report-by-thomas-archer-hirst-on-a-paper-on-the-mechanical-performance-of-logical-inference-by-william-stanley-jevons, accessed on 10 February 2025

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