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103 manuscript pages and four plates showing various polyhedra.

Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On autopolar polyedra'.

Communicated by A [Arthur] Cayley. Received and read by the Royal Society on 19 June 1856.

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 8, 1857.

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PT/57/3
Earliest possible date
1856
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Ink on paper
Page extent
107 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Penyngton Kirkman

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Thomas Penyngton Kirkman, Paper, 'On autopolar polyedra' by Rev Thos P [Thomas Penyngton] Kirkman, 1856, PT/57/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_57_3/paper-on-autopolar-polyedra-by-rev-thos-p-thomas-penyngton-kirkman, accessed on 29 April 2025

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