| RefNo | CLP/1/48/6 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Diagram, triangles and spherical triangles in ellipse by [Pierre Louis de Maupertuis] |
| Date | [1731] |
| 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; & de annulo saturni'.
Read to the Royal Society on 8 July 1731. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Diagram |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1731.0043
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 37, no 422, p 240 (1731) |
| RelatedRecord | RBO/16/65 |
| CLP/1/48 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7795 | Maupertuis; Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698 - 1759) | 1698 - 1759 |