| RefNo | EC/1866/15 |
| Previous numbers | Cert X, 99 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Townsend, Richard: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | Revd Richard Townsend MA. The author of a work entitled "Chapters on the Modern Geometry of the point, line, & circle," and of the following papers: - "On principal Axes of a body, their moments of Inertia & distribution in Space" - "On the Equilibrium of a floating body" - "On a principle in the Theory of Surfaces of the Second order, & its application to Jacobi's method of generating the Ellipsoid" - "On a class of Curves on the hyperboloid of one sheet connected with the generatrices of the Surface" - "On Hesse's Construction of the problem to construct in magnitude, position & figure the Surface of the Second order, which passes through nine given points" - "On a Theorem of Dr Salmon's in Confocal Surfaces of the Second order" - and "On an Elementary investigation of the formulae for the variations of the longitude of the Node and of the inclination of the orbit in the planetary Theory" - Eminent as a Mathematician. |
| Proposers | From General Knowledge. Charles James Hargreave; W F Donkin; Bartholomew Price; Henry J S Smith; James Booth; E W Brayley
From Personal Knowledge. George Salmon; Saml Haughton; Robert Kane; James Apjohn; H Lloyd DD; Henry Hennessy; Maxwell Simpson; J J Sylvester; A Cayley; J Beete Jukes |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA5915 | Townsend; Richard (1821 - 1884) | 1821 - 1884 |