| RefNo | CLP/1/9 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'A short account of negativo-affirmative arithmetick' by John Colson |
| Date | [1726] |
| Description | Colson proposes a new method of notation in arithmetic in order to shorten and facilitate operations in long calculations, especially in numbers expressed by higher digits.
Subject: Mathematics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A short account of negativo-affirmative arithmetick'.
Read to the Royal Society on 17 November 1726. |
| Extent | 12p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1726.0032
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions' Volume 34, Issue 396 (1726) |
| JBO/14/13 |
| RelatedRecord | RBO/12/78 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7778 | Colson; John (1680 - 1760) | 1680 - 1760 |