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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the double tangents of a curve of the fourth order'.

Received by the Royal Society on 30 May 1861. Read 20 June 1861.

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 11, 1862.

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PT/63/17
Earliest possible date
1861
Physical description
Ink on paper; all pages folded
Page extent
12 pages
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Manuscript

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Arthur Cayley

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Arthur Cayley, Paper, 'On the double tangents of a curve of the fourth order' by A [Arthur] Cayley, 1861, PT/63/17, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_63_17/paper-on-the-double-tangents-of-a-curve-of-the-fourth-order-by-a-arthur-cayley, accessed on 23 March 2025

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