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Reference numberL&P/6/98
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'Of a general theorum for finding the length of any arc of any conic hyperbola by means of two elliptic areas' by John Landen
Date1775
DescriptionContains four mathematical figures.

Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An investigation of a general theorem for finding the length of any arc of any conic hyperbola, by means of two elliptic arcs with some other new and useful theorems deduced therefrom'

Read 23 March 1775
Extent9p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionInk on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1775.0028
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA7089Landen; John (1719 - 1790)1719 - 1790
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