Unpublished paper, 'On scalar and clinant algebraical coordinate geometry, introducing a new and more general theory of analytical geometry, including the received as a particular care, and explaining "imaginary points, intersections, and lines"' by Alexander J [John] Ellis
Reference number: AP/43/3
Date: 1860
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Ellis writes on geometry in two dimensions, clinant coordinate geometry and geometry in three dimensions.
Marked on front as 'Archives G G S [George Gabriel Stokes]'. Includes two pages of geometrical figures.
Subject: Mathematics / Geometry
Received 16 February 1860. Communicated by Archibald Smith.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 10 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On scalar and clinant algebraical coordinate geometry, introducing a new and more general theory of analytical geometry, including the received as a particular case, and explaining "imaginary points," "intersections," and "lines"'.
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Alexander John Ellis, Unpublished paper, 'On scalar and clinant algebraical coordinate geometry, introducing a new and more general theory of analytical geometry, including the received as a particular care, and explaining "imaginary points, intersections, and lines"' by Alexander J [John] Ellis, 1860, AP/43/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_43_3/unpublished-paper-on-scalar-and-clinant-algebraical-coordinate-geometry-introducing-a-new-and-more-general-theory-of-analytical-geometry-including-the-received-as-a-particular-care-and-explaining-imaginary-points-intersections-and-lines-by-alexander-j-john-ellis, accessed on 12 November 2024
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III. On scalar and clinant algebraical coordinate geometry, introducing a new and more general theory of analytical geometry, including the received as a particular case, and explaining ‘imaginary points,’ ‘intersections,’ and ‘lines.’ External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1860
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1859.0076
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Archived papers: volume 43, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1859-1861
1859-1861 Reference number: AP/43
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