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Image number: RS.8646
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"Figures de l'examen theorique du nouveau systeme de charpente" [a new structural system]
Date
1816
Creator
Charles Dupin (1784 - 1873, French) , Mathematician
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Dimensions
height (drawing): 220mm
width (drawing): 220mm
width (drawing): 220mm
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Description
Plate 6 from the paper "De la structure des vaisseaux Anglais, consideree dans ses derniers perfectionnements" by Charles Dupin, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.107 (1817), pp.86-135. Figure 3 has been corrected, a new version overlaying the original an attached by sealing wax. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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