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Paper, 'On the sextactic points of a plane curve' by William Spottiswoode

Reference number: PT/71/5

Date: 1865

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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the sextactic points of a plane curve'.

Received and read by the Royal Society on 15 June 1865.

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 14, 1865.

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PT/71/5
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1865
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14 pages
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William Spottiswoode

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William Spottiswoode, Paper, 'On the sextactic points of a plane curve' by William Spottiswoode, 1865, PT/71/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_71_5/paper-on-the-sextactic-points-of-a-plane-curve-by-william-spottiswoode, accessed on 14 December 2025

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