| RefNo | AP/43/3 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'On scalar and clinant algebraical coordinate geometry, introducing a new and more general theory of analytical geometry, including the received as a particular care, and explaining "imaginary points, intersections, and lines"' by Alexander J [John] Ellis |
| Date | 1860 |
| Description | Ellis writes on geometry in two dimensions, clinant coordinate geometry and geometry in three dimensions.
Marked on front as 'Archives G G S [George Gabriel Stokes]'. Includes two pages of geometrical figures.
Subject: Mathematics / Geometry
Received 16 February 1860. Communicated by Archibald Smith.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 10 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as '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"'. |
| Extent | 122p |
| Format | Drawing |
| Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1859.0076 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6159 | Ellis; Alexander John (1814 - 1890); mathematician | 1814 - 1890 |
| NA1486 | Smith; Archibald (1813 - 1872) | 1813 - 1872 |