Paper, 'On the grounds of the method which Laplace has given in the second chapter of the third book of his Mécanique Céleste for computing the attractions of spheroids of every description' by James Ivory Subject: Physics Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the grounds of the method which Laplace has given in the second chapter of the third book of his Mécanique Céleste for computing the attractions of spheroids of every description'. Communicated by Henry Brougham. Paper read 4 July 1811. Appendix read 7 November 1811. The paper is undated and the appendix is dated 30 October 1811. 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 1, 1832. [1811]