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RefNoMC/2/218
LevelItem
TitleDraft letter from [Dr. Peter Mark Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society]
Datec. June 1836
DescriptionResponding to Thomas Dryden's letters to inform him that there is no recompense for discoveries of perpetual motion and that it is standard Society procedure not to reply to letters claiming to have found the solution to perpetual motion, quadrature of the circle, trisection of the angle and similar problems.
Extent1p
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedRecordMC/2/215
MC/2/217
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