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Paper, 'On a point connected with the dispute about the invention of fluxions' by A [Augustus] De Morgan

Reference number: PT/30/7

Date: 1845

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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On a point connected with the dispute between Keil and Leibnitz about the invention of fluxions'.

Communicated by S [Samuel] Hunter Christie. Received by the Royal Society on 1 December 1845. Read 29 January 1846.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 5, 1851.

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PT/30/7
Earliest possible date
1845
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Ink on paper
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8 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'On a point connected with the dispute about the invention of fluxions' by A [Augustus] De Morgan, 1845, PT/30/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_30_7/paper-on-a-point-connected-with-the-dispute-about-the-invention-of-fluxions-by-a-augustus-de-morgan, accessed on 07 December 2025

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