After Alice was published in 1865 Dodgson’s next work was a
mathematical piece called “Condensation of Determinants” , a work important
enough in scientific circles to be published in the Proceedings of The Royal
Society in 1866. The piece shown here is an offprint from this journal in rare
plain paper covers. The well known story that Queen Victoria, being impressed
by Alice, requested that Dodgson sent her a copy of his next work, referred to
the Determinants of 1867 but in fact this piece came out first. Imagine how
thrilled she would have been with either!
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