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Rev. T.A. Merrill letter

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Identifier: Mss 807422
Mss 807422
Date(s): 1807
Abstract

In English.

Roswell Shurtleff letter

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Identifier: Mss 804303
Mss 804303
Date(s): 1804-05-03
Abstract

In English.

Roswell Shurtleff letter

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Identifier: Mss 857460
Mss 857460
Date(s): 1857-08-10
Scope and Contents

Letter from Roswell Shurtleff in Hanover, New Hampshire to Nathaniel Shattuck with an explanation of the origin of the process of extraction of cube and square roots. Writer thought he first solved the process in 1801, with Caleb Butler, but later discovered that Shattuck had originated the idea of using blocks which was explained later in Adams' arithmatice. (typewritten). Includes Mss 906103.

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