Item A15 - Notebook labelled 'Attraction'

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Todhunter/A/A15

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GB 275 Todhunter/A/A15

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Notebook labelled 'Attraction'

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  • 1880 (Circa) (Creation)

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218 folios paper

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'Huygens Discours de la Cause de la Pesanteur.' f.1-6.

'The demonstration of Hermann's proposition.' f.7.

'Marian 1720.' f.8.

'Clairaut's Memoires 1733.' f.9.

'Memoires de l'Academie. Paris.' f.10.

'Clairaut. Philosophical Transactions Vol 40.' f.11.

Notes from Rosenberger. f.12-14.

Notes on Maclaurin. f.15-16.

Notes on Clairaut. f.17-20.

'Juan and Ulloa. Voyage. English Translation.' f.21-22.

'Bouguer Figure de la Terre.' f.23-26.

Further notes on Bouguer. f.27-29.

'Murdoch Nouvelles Tables Loxodromiques.' f.30-31.

'Chastellet's Newton Vol. II.' f.32-36.

'D'Alembert.' f.37-62.

'Boscovich.' f.63.

'Frisi.' f.64-67.

'Histoire de l'Academie 1772, 1775.' f.68-69.

'Cassini Voyage en Allemagne 1775.' f.70.

'Laplace.' f.71.

'Legendre.' f.72-84.

'Cousin.' f.85-86.

'Cavendish Philosophical Transactions 1798.' f.87-88.

'Trembley.' f.89.

'Laplace. Mecanique Celeste Livre III.' f.90-92.

'Gauss.' f.93.

'Connaissance des Terres 1829.' f.94.

'Poisson 1825.' f.95.

'Pontecoulant. Supplement au Livre V.' f.96.

'Plana.' f.97-101.

'Svanberg.' f.102-108.

'1830. Airy. Figure of the Earth.' f.109.

'1832. Bowditch Vol. II.' f.110-111.

'1835. On the Attraction of an Homogeneous Ellipsoid on an external particle. By J.B.' f.112.

'1840. Gauss.' f.113-123.

'1848. Thomson.' f.125.

'1849. Stokes.' f.127.

'1860. Pratt.' f.128.

'1861. Heine.' f.130-139.

'1865. Resal.' f.140-148.

'1867. Thomson and Tait.' f.150-170.

'1868. Moingno. Statique.' f.172-175.

'1868. Price. Infinitesimal Calculus Vol. III.' f.176.

Notes from 'Revue des deux Mondes' Jan. and Nov. 1869. f.177-178.

'Jacobi's Theorem.' f.179-181.

'Shells.' f.183-184.

'Notes on my History of Attraction and Figure of the Earth.' f.185-194.

List of authors and titles arranged chronologically 1715-1880. f.198-212.

'On a difficulty in the Theory of the Attraction of Spheroids. By James McCullagh A.B. Read May 28 1832.' f.215-218.

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