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... Maclaurin's manuscript was in circulation among his students , and through them among others , as Maclaurin's testimony in a letter to his friend Stirling would show.16 It is barely possible that Maclaurin's work was as great a single ...
... Maclaurin's manuscript was in circulation among his students , and through them among others , as Maclaurin's testimony in a letter to his friend Stirling would show.16 It is barely possible that Maclaurin's work was as great a single ...
Page 104
... Maclaurin , Euler , and Daniel Bernoulli . Maclaurin's work was especially commendable for the new propositions it contained . In the first two papers of the Dissertations Simpson presents a discussion very similar to Maclaurin's work ...
... Maclaurin , Euler , and Daniel Bernoulli . Maclaurin's work was especially commendable for the new propositions it contained . In the first two papers of the Dissertations Simpson presents a discussion very similar to Maclaurin's work ...
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... Maclaurin favored Stirling with an account of his method of treating the attraction of spheroids and the figure of the earth.12 Yet while evidence shows that Simpson's work will not answer to the claim of priority to Maclaurin's , it is ...
... Maclaurin favored Stirling with an account of his method of treating the attraction of spheroids and the figure of the earth.12 Yet while evidence shows that Simpson's work will not answer to the claim of priority to Maclaurin's , it is ...
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