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Unpublished paper, 'Memoir on "Undevelopable Uniquadric Homographics"' by Martin Gardiner

Reference number: AP/50/3

Date: 07 June 1867

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In this paper Gardiner's method of investigation is purely geometrical throughout, its arrangement of details is systematic and natural, and it is divided into eight chapters, the first seven of which are preparatory to the consideration of the interesting problem discussed at length in the eighth, the direct, general, and complete solution of which is claimed to be given in it for the first time.

Marked on front as 'Archives July 2 1868'.

Subject: Mathematics

Received 13 April 1868. Communicated by [Richard] Townsend.

Written by Gardiner in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 16 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Memoir on "Undevelopable Uniquadric Homographics"'.

Reference number
AP/50/3
Earliest possible date
07 June 1867
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
81 pages
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Manuscript

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Unpublished paper, 'Memoir on "Undevelopable Uniquadric Homographics"' by Martin Gardiner, 07 June 1867, AP/50/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_50_3/unpublished-paper-memoir-on-undevelopable-uniquadric-homographics-by-martin-gardiner, accessed on 17 March 2026

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