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Reference numberAP/19/15
Previous numbersAP.19.15
LevelFile
TitleUnpublished paper, 'A new method of discovering the equations of caustics' by G H S [George Henry Sacheverell] Johnson
Date1835
DescriptionJohnson, Tutor of Queen's College Oxford, seeks a new method for calculating the polar equation of a caustic, using differential equations. Includes two diagrams of light rays being reflected in the text.

Subject: Mathematics / Geometry / Optics

Received 19 February 1835 by John George Children. Communicated by the Reverend Baden Powell.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'A new method of discovering the equations of caustics'.
Extent20p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionInk on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0192
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA5476Powell; Baden (1796 - 1860)1796 - 1860
NA3175Children; John George (1777 - 1852); chemist1777 - 1852
NA6326Johnson; George Henry Sacheverell (1808 - 1881)1808 - 1881
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