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A DEMONSTRATION 
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LAWSON’S 
GEOMETRICAL THEOREMS: © 
BY THE LATE REV. CHARLES WILDBORE; 
Communicated by Mr. Dlabbott to Mr. Ewart, and by him to the Society. 
(Presented January 10, 1812.) 
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To Peter Ewart, Esq. 
Dear Sir, 
J REQUEST you to present the inclosed 
manuscript to the Literary and Philosophical 
Society. It contains solutions, by that very 
able mathematician, the late Rev. Charles 
Wildbore, to all the sixty theorems in the 
well known pamphlet entitled, “ A Disserta- 
tion on the Geometrical ‘Analysis of the An- 
cients, with a collection of theorems and 
problems, without solutions, for the exercise 
of young students; 1774.” These theorems 
have all been elegantly demonstrated before, 
in Leyburn’s Mathematical Repository. But 
I esteem the following train of solutions to be 
a very curious specimen of investigation, and 
a proper exemplification of the method, which 
the ingenious author of the theorems recom- 
