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The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions.
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in Note on a Quaternion Transformation , Communication read on Monday, 6th April, 1863, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1866), p. 117.

 

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