RefNo | AP/9/8/2 |
Level | Item |
Title | Unpublished manuscript, 'De la loi suivant laquelle varie la flexibilité du sapin du Canada depuis son pied jusqu'à sa tête' ['On the law of variation of the flexibility of the Canadian fir from the root to the top'] by Charles Dupin |
Date | [1820] |
Description | Paper by Dupin attempting to produce a mathematical law governing the variation in flexibility of timber from the root of the tree to the top, with the timber from the root being the strongest. Dupin uses the Canadian fir in his experimentation. Marginalia and corrections appear throughout in ink and graphite.
Subject: Botany / Mathematics
Communciated by Sir Joseph Banks. Read to the Royal Society on 16 March 1820. |
Language | French |
Extent | 28p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedRecord | AP/9/8 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8116 | Banks; Sir; Joseph (1744 - 1820); naturalist | 1744 - 1820 |