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THE following passage, which has recently come to my notice, in the preface to the third edition of Prof. Tait's “Quaternions,” seems to call for some reply:
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GIBBS, J. On the Rôle of Quaternions in the Algebra of Vectors. Nature 43, 511–513 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/043511c0
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