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66 manuscript pages and 18 plates.

Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A memoir upon caustics'.

Written by Cayley at 2 Stone Buildings [Lincoln's Inn, London]. Received by the Royal Society on 1 May 1856. Read 8 May 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/57/5
Earliest possible date
1856
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Ink on paper
Page extent
84 pages
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Manuscript

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Arthur Cayley

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Arthur Cayley, Paper, 'A memoir upon caustics' by A [Arthur] Cayley, 1856, PT/57/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_57_5/paper-a-memoir-upon-caustics-by-a-arthur-cayley, accessed on 17 February 2025

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