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RefNoAP/15/16
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished paper, 'On some properties of numbers in geometric progression' by C [Charles] Blacklewar
Date[1832]
DescriptionBlacklewar demonstrates three geometric theorems relating to geometrical series raised to various powers.

An ink inscription on first page reads 'Not to be printed PMR [Peter Mark Roget].' A short note at top of page is struck out, reading '(No. 1) Sir, I request the favour of you to lay the following paper before the councnil of the Royal Society. I am your obedient servant, Charles Blacklewar'.

Subject: Mathematics

Communicated by J G [John George] Children. Received by the Royal Society on 1 November 1832. Read to the Royal Society on 15 November 1832.

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 'On some Properties of Numbers in Geometrical Progression'.
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0082
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA3175Children; John George (1777 - 1852); chemist1777 - 1852
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