Diagrams concerning the squaring of the circle and other problems
Date
8 April 1685
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Manuscript page number
p84
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Dimensions
height (page): 320mm
width (page): 200mm
width (page): 200mm
Subject
Description
Diagrams concerning the squaring of the circle, doubling the cube, trisecting an angle, and inscribing geometrically a regular heptagon in a circle, in a paper by St George Ashe of the Dublin Philosophical Society, which was read at the Royal Society at its meeting on 8 April 1685. Ashe reviewed 'possible' solutions to these intractable problems, but his aim was to consider what use such solutions might have, and whether what is already known might in fact serve such uses.
These figures are copied at LBC/10/111. Another version can be found at EL/A/34/011.
These figures are copied at LBC/10/111. Another version can be found at EL/A/34/011.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 8 April 1685, ‘A discourse was read, which had been presented to the Dublin Society by Mr. St. George Ashe, fellow of Trinity-College there, and of that Society, stating of what use in mathematics the solution of the problems of squaring the circle, doubling the cube, trisecting an angle, inscribing geometrically a regular heptagon in a circle, etc. would be’ (Birch 4:389).
Related fellows
St George Ashe (1658 - 1718, British) , Mathematician
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