| RefNo | AP/44/3 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'On the general forms of the symmetrical properties of plane triangles' by Thomas Dobson |
| Creator | Dobson; Thomas (fl 1861) |
| Date | July 1861 |
| Description | Dobson presents a 'general, simple, and uniform' method for deducing the symmetrical properties of plane triangles, which involves referring the symmetrical points connected with a triangle to an indefinite plane, and establishing by an elementary process certain general formulae, each of which can be made to yield several cognate plane properties when different definite positions are assigned to the plane of reference.
Annotations in pencil throughout. Includes one geometrical figure in the text. Marked on front as 'Archives Feb 20 [18]62'.
Subject: Mathematics / Geometry
Received 3 December 1861. Read 9 January 1862. Communicated by E A [Edward Augustus] Inglefield.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 11 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the general forms of the symmetrical properties of plane triangles'. |
| Extent | 15p |
| Format | Drawing |
| Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink and graphite pencil on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1860.0112 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7686 | Inglefield; Sir; Edward Augustus (1820 - 1894) | 1820 - 1894 |