Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8593
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Drawings of parabolas
Date
1812
Creator
John Frederick William Herschel (1792 - 1871, British) , Astronomer
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 270mm
width (drawing): 214mm
width (drawing): 214mm
Subject
Description
Plate 1, figures 1-2, from the paper "On a remarkable application of Cotes's Theorem" by J.F.W.Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.103 (1813), pp.8-26. Publication and plate details upper right. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked "1809."
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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