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RefNoRR/5/254
LevelItem
TitleLetter from William Spottiswoode, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the equations of rotation of a solid body about a fixed point' by William Spottiswoode
Date3 August 1863
DescriptionExplains the advance his new process has over existing processes. To him it was 'the most obvious and direct, although at the same time not the shortest, course of proceeding'. Hopes his enthusiasm for the new process hasn't led him too far off course.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1864]
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionLetter on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1863.0016 Vol.13 1864
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Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7690Spottiswoode; William (1825 - 1883)1825 - 1883
NA8283Stokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903)1819 - 1903
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