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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1859].

Reference number
RR/4/78
Earliest possible date
09 May 1860
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

William Fishburn Donkin

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William Fishburn Donkin, Referee's report by William Fishburn Donkin, on a paper 'On scalar and clinant algebraical coordinate geometry, introducing a new and more general theory of analytical geometry, including the received as a particular case, and explaining ‘imaginary points,’ ‘intersections,’ and ‘lines.’' by Alexander John Ellis, 09 May 1860, RR/4/78, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_4_78/referees-report-by-william-fishburn-donkin-on-a-paper-on-scalar-and-clinant-algebraical-coordinate-geometry-introducing-a-new-and-more-general-theory-of-analytical-geometry-including-the-received-as-a-particular-case-and-explaining-imaginary-points-intersections-and-lines-by-alexander-john-ellis, accessed on 20 April 2025

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