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  <dc:title>Unpublished manuscript, 'On the form of the teeth of wheels' by Robert Woodhouse</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Woodhouse discusses various theories regarding the optimal form of the teeth of wheels required to achieve equilibrium between power and weight. Woodhouse references the work of [Philippe] de la Hire, [Charles Étienne Louis?] Camus, and [Leonhard] Euler.

Annotations, corrections, deletions, and marginalia in ink and pencil appear throughout. Includes some footnotes in French.

Subject: Physics / Engineering

Whilst this paper was not abstracted in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, a mention of its reading at a meeting of the Society was published in The Philosophical Magazine: 'XLII. Proceedings of Learned Societies'. The Philosophical Magazine: comprehending the various branches of science, the liberal and fine arts, agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, vol 29, 1808, p. 275.

Read to the Royal Society on 10 December 1807.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>[1807]</dc:date>
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