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  <dc:title>Diagram, triangles and spherical triangles in ellipse by [Pierre Louis de Maupertuis]</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Diagram showing two triangles and further spherical triangles inscribed within an ellipse with several dotted lines tracing further triangles extending from the ellipse. A nearly identical figure is found at CLP/1/48/7.

Subject: Physics / Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'De figuris quas fluida rotata induere possunt, problemata duo; cum conjectura de Stellis quæ aliquando prodeunt vel deficiunt; &amp; de annulo saturni'.

Read to the Royal Society on 8 July 1731.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>[1731]</dc:date>
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