| Reference number | CLP/1/24 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Paper, 'Responsio ad animadversiones ad Davidis Gregorii Catenariam' [Response to observations of David Gregory's catenary] by unknown author |
| Date | [1699] |
| Description | In response to a criticism in Acta Eruditorum (1699), the author offers a proof of one of his lemmas relating to the properties of a curve known as catenary. Includes two diagrams in the text.
Subject: Geometry
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Responsio ad animadversionem ad Davidis Gregorii Catenariam, act. Eruditorum lipsiæ. Mense Februarii an. 1699'.
Read to the Royal Society on 24 January 1699. |
| Language | Latin |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1699.0076 |
| JBO/10/162 |
| Related records in the catalogue | RBO/8/68 |
| CLP/1/24/1 |
| CLP/1/21/2 |
| CLP/1/24/2 |
| CLP/1/24/3 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA7998 | Gregory; David (c1661 - 1708); mathematician and astronomer | c1661 - 1708 |