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Sep 29, 2016 at 18:17 history edited Conifold CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sep 27, 2016 at 22:53 comment added Marcus Johnson There are also some interesting comments in the relevant sections of Whiteside's Papers and his 'Patterns of Mathematical Thought'.
Sep 26, 2016 at 23:56 history edited Conifold CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sep 26, 2016 at 20:09 comment added Dave L Renfro Also relevant is C. R. M. Talbot's 1860 English translation and extensive commentary of Newton's Enumeration Linearum Tertii Ordinis --- Sir Isaac Newton's Enumeration of Lines of the Third Order, Generation of Curves by Shadows, Organic Description of Curves, and Construction of Equations by Curves. version at google books (figures not scanned in correctly); version at the University of Michigan Historical Math Collection
Sep 26, 2016 at 3:18 comment added nwr Also, thanks for editing my question to make it more clear. I've removed the references I had made to group theory since it seems irrelevant.
Sep 26, 2016 at 3:02 vote accept nwr
Sep 26, 2016 at 3:02 comment added nwr Thanks again! This makes clear how the bits and pieces I've been reading fit together. I was aware of the criticism of Newton's classification but still intrigued enough to want to get a clearer picture. I guess I could have dug deeper to discover that Plucker was using different criteria.
Sep 25, 2016 at 23:04 history answered Conifold CC BY-SA 3.0