| RefNo | PT/9/2 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Paper, 'Description of a new instrument for performing mechanically the involution and evolution of numbers' by Peter M [Mark] Roget |
| Date | [1814] |
| Description | 41 manuscript pages and three plates showing graduated scales, a circular scale, and a series of roots, powers, and exponents.
Subject: Mathematics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Description of a new instrument for performing mechanically the involution and evolution of numbers'.
Communicated by Will [William] Hyde Wollaston. Read 17 November 1814.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833. |
| Extent | 44p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0002 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1815.0003 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/9/2/1 |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6616 | Roget; Peter Mark (1779 - 1869); physician and philologist | 1779 - 1869 |
| NA8298 | Wollaston; William Hyde (1766 - 1828); chemist, physicist and physiologist | 1766 - 1828 |