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RefNoL&P/7/143
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'Conjectures as to Cardan's rule having been discovered by Scipio Terreus' by Francis Maseres
Date1780
DescriptionSubject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A conjecture concerning the method by which Cardan's rules for resolving the cubic equation x3-qx=r in the first case of it (or when r is greater than 29vq—3v3, or rr—4 is greater than q3—27) were probably discovered by Scipio Ferreus, of Bononia, or whoever else was the first inventor of them'

Read 24 February 1780
Extent26p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1780.0012
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7181Maseres; Francis (1731 - 1824)1731 - 1824
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