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CONTENTS.

SECTION 3.-On Anharmonic Co-ordinates in Space,

SECTION 4. On Geometrical Nets in Space,

SECTION 5. On Barycentres of Systems of Points; and on

Simple and Complex Means of Vectors, SECTION 6. On Anharmonic Equations, and Vector Expressions, of Surfaces and Curves in Space,

SECTION 7.-On Differentials of Vectors,

An application of finite differences, to a question connected with barycentres, occurs in p. 87. The anharmonic generation of a ruled hyperboloid (or paraboloid) is employed to illustrate anharmonic equations; and (among other examples) certain cones, of the second and third orders, have their vector equations assigned. In the last Section, a definition of differentials (of vectors and scalars) is proposed, which is afterwards extended to differentials of quaternions, and which is independent of developments and of infinitesimals, but involves the conception of limits. Vectors of Velocity and Acceleration are mentioned; and a hint of Hodographs is given.

BOOK II.

ON QUATERNIONS, CONSIDERED AS QUOTIENTS OF
VECTORS, AND AS INVOLVING ANGULAR RELA-
TIONS,.

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111

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62-67

67-85

85-89

90-97

98-102

103-300

CHAPTER I.

FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES RESPECTING QUOTIENTS OF VECTORS, 103-239

Very little, if any, of this Chapter II. i., should be omitted, even in a first perusal; since it contains the most essential conceptions and notations of the Calculus of Quaternions, at least so far as quotients of vectors are concerned, with numerous geometrical illustrations. Still there are a few investigations respecting circumscribed cones, imaginary intersections, and ellipsoids, in the thirteenth Section, which a student may pass over, and which will be indicated in the proper place in this Table.

SECTION 1. Introductory Remarks; First Principles adopted from Algebra,

103-106

SECTION 2.-First Motive for naming the Quotient of two
Vectors a Quaternion,

106-110

SECTION 3.-Additional Illustrations,

110-112

It is shown, by consideration of an angle on a desk, or inclined plane, that the complex relation of one vector to another, in length and

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in direction, involves generally a system of four numerical elements. Many other motives, leading to the adoption of the name, "Quaternion," for the subject of the present Calculus, from its fundamental connexion with the number "Four," are found to present themselves in the course of the work.

SECTION 4. On Equality of Quaternions; and on the Plane of a Quaternion,.

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112-117

117-120

SECTION 5. On the Axis and Angle of a Quaternion; and
on the Index of a Right Quotient, or Quaternion,
SECTION 6.-On the Reciprocal, Conjugate, Opposite, and
Norm of a Quaternion; and on Null Quaternions, 120-129
SECTION 7.-On Radial Quotients; and on the Square of a

Quaternion,

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129-133

SECTION 8. On the Versor of a Quaternion, or of a Vector; and on some General Formulæ of Transformation, 133-142

In the five foregoing Sections it is shown, among other things, that the plane of a quaternion is generally an essential element of its constitution, so that diplanar quaternions are unequal; but that the square of every right radial (or right versor) is equal to negative unity, whatever its plane may be. The Symbol V - 1 admits then of a real interpretation, in this as in several other systems; but when thus treated as real, it is in the present Calculus too vague to be useful: on which account it is found convenient to retain the old signification of that symbol, as denoting the (uninterpreted) Imaginary of Algebra, or what may here be called the scalar imaginary, in investigations respecting non-real intersections, or non-real contacts, in geometry.

SECTION 9.-On Vector-Arcs, and Vector-Angles, considered as Representatives of Versors of Quaternions; and on the Multiplication and Division of any one such Versor by another,

This Section is important, on account of its constructions of multiplication and division; which show that the product of two diplanar versors, and therefore of two such quaternions, is not independent of the order of the factors.

SECTION 10. On a System of Three Right Versors, in
Three Rectangular Planes; and on the Laws of the
Symbols, ijk, .

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The student ought to make himself familiar with these laws, which are all included in the Fundamental Formula,

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142-157

157-162

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(B)

In fact, a QUATERNION may be symbolically defined to be a Quadrinomial Expression of the form,

q=w+ix+jy+kz,

in which w, z, y, z are four scalars, or ordinary algebraic quantities, while i, j, k are three new symbols, obeying the laws contained in the formula (A), and therefore not subject to all the usual rules of algebra: since we have, for instance,

y=+k, but ji=-k; and jド = - (ijk)2.

SECTION 11. On the Tensor of a Vector, or of a Quaternion; and on the Product or Quotient of any two Quaternions,

SECTION 12. On the Sum or Difference of any two Quaternions; and on the Scalar (or Scalar Part) of a Quaternion,

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SECTION 13. On the Right Part (or Vector Part) of a
Quaternion; and on the Distributive Property of the
Multiplication of Quaternions,

SECTION 14. On the Reduction of the General Quaternion
to a Standard Quadrinomial Form; with a First Proof
of the Associative Principle of Multiplication of Qua-
ternions,

Articles 213-220 (with their sub-articles), in pp. 214-233, may be omitted at first reading.

162-174

175-190

190-233

233-239

CHAPTER II.

ON COMPLANAR QUATERNIONS, OR QUOTIENTS OF VECTORS IN
ONE PLANE; AND ON POWERS, ROOTS, AND LOGARITHMS OF
QUATERNIONS, .

The first six Sections of this Chapter (II. ii.) may be passed over in a first perusal.

SECTION 1.-On Complanar Proportion of Vectors; Fourth Proportional to Three, Third Proportional to Two, Mean Proportional, Square Root; General Reduction of a Quaternion in a given Plane, to a Standard Binomial Form,

SECTION 2.-On Continued Proportion of Four or more Vectors; whole Powers and Roots of Quaternions; and Roots of Unity,

240-285

240-246

246-251

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SECTION 3.-On the Amplitudes of Quaternions in a given
Plane; and on Trigonometrical Expressions for such
Quaternions, and for their Powers,

SECTION 4. On the Ponential and Logarithm of a Quater-
nion; and on Powers of Quaternions, with Quaternions
for their Exponents,

SECTION 5.-On Finite (or Polynomial) Equations of Alge-
braic Form, involving Complanar Quaternions; and on
the Existence of n Real Quaternion Roots, of any such
Equation of the nth Degree,

SECTION 6.- On the n2 n Imaginary (or Symbolical)
Roots of a Quaternion Equation of the nth Degree, with
Coefficients of the kind considered in the foregoing
Section,

SECTION 7. On the Reciprocal of a Vector, and on Har-
monic Means of Vectors; with Remarks on the Anhar-
monic Quaternion of a Group of Four Points, and on
Conditions of Concircularity,

In this last Section (II. ii. 7) the short first Article 258, and the following Art. 259, as far as the formula VIII. in p. 280, should be read, as a preparation for the Third Book, to which the Student may next proceed.

251-257

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257-264

265-275

275-279

279-285

CHAPTER III.

ON DIPLANAR QUATERNIONS, OR QUOTIENTS OF VECTORS IN
SPACE: AND ESPECIALLY ON THE ASSOCIATIVE PRINCIPLE
OF MULTIPLICATION OF SUCH QUATERNIONS,

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This Chapter may be omitted, in a first perusal.

SECTION 1. On some Enunciations of the Associative Property, or Principle, of Multiplication of Diplanar Quaternions,

286-300

286-293

SECTION 2.- On some Geometrical Proofs of the Associative Property of Multiplication of Quaternions, which are independent of the Distributive Principle,

293-297

SECTION 3. On some Additional Formulæ,

297-300

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ON QUATERNIONS, CONSIDERED AS PRODUCTS OR
POWERS OF VECTORS; AND ON SOME APPLICA-
TIONS OF QUATERNIONS,

CHAPTER I.

Pages.

301 to the end.

ON THE INTERPRETATION OF A PRODUCT OF VECTORS, OR POWER
OF A VECTOR, AS A QUATERNION,

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The first six Sections of this Chapter ought to be read, even in a first perusal of the work.

SECTION 1. On a First Method of Interpreting a Product of Two Vectors as a Quaternion,

SECTION 2.-On some Consequences of the foregoing Interpretation,

This first interpretation treats the product β. a, as equal to the quotient 3: a-1; where a ̄1 (or Ra) is the previously defined Reciprocal (II. ii. 7) of the vector a, namely a second vector, which has an inverse length, and an opposite direction. Multiplication of Vectors is thus proved to be (like that of Quaternions) a Distributive, but not generally a Commutative Operation. The Square of a Vector is shown to be always a Negative Scalar, namely the negative of the square of the tensor of that vector, or of the number which expresses its length ; and some geometrical applications of this fertile principle, to spheres, &c., are given. The Index of the Right Part of a Product of Two Coinitial Vectors, Οа, ов, is proved to be a right line, perpendicular to the Plane of the Triangle oab, and representing by its length the Double Area of that triangle; while the Rotation round this Index, from the Multiplier to the Multiplicand, is positive. This right part, or vector part, Vaß, of the product vanishes, when the factors are parallel (to one common line); and the scalar part, Saß, when they are rectangular.

301-390

301-303

303-308

SECTION 3. On a Second Method of arriving at the same
Interpretation, of a Binary Product of Vectors, .

308-310

SECTION 4. On the Symbolical Identification of a Right
Quaternion with its own Index: and on the Construc-
tion of a Product of Two Rectangular Lines, by a Third
Line, rectangular to both,

310-313

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SECTION 5. On some Simplifications of Notation, or of Expression, resulting from this Identification; and on the Conception of an Unit-Line as a Right Versor,

313-316

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