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RefNoL&P/10/137
LevelFile
TitlePaper, 'Construction and analyisis of geometrical propositions...also determining the stability of ships' by George Atwood
Date1795
DescriptionContains two plates.

Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The construction and analysis of geometrical propositions, determining the positions assumed by homogeneal bodies which float freely, and at rest, on a fluid's surface; also determining the stability of ships, and of other floating bodies'

Read 18 February 1796
Extent49p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper and two plates
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1796.0006
RelatedRecordL&P/10/137/1
L&P/10/137/2
L&P/10/137/3
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7824Atwood; George (1746 - 1807)1746 - 1807
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