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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the analytical theory of the conic'.

Received by the Royal Society on 8 May 1862. Read 15 May 1862.

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 12, 1863.

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PT/66/6
Earliest possible date
1862
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Ink on paper; all pages folded
Page extent
40 pages
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Manuscript

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Arthur Cayley

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Arthur Cayley, Paper, 'On the analytical theory of the conic' by A [Arthur] Cayley, 1862, PT/66/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_66_6/paper-on-the-analytical-theory-of-the-conic-by-a-arthur-cayley, accessed on 11 July 2025

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