Description “Hamilton's discovery of quaternions is not just well-documented, it is also much written about. ... What differentiates my account from others is my desire to show that Hamilton's work can be grasped within the more general understanding of agency and practice that I call the mangle. Together with the notions of free and forced moves and disciplinary agency, that of the open-endedness of modeling is especially important here, and in what follows I seek to locate the free moves in Hamilton's eventual route to quaternions by setting that trajectory in relation to his earlier attempts to construct systems of `triplets”'. Followed by a response by Flanagan, Owen, “The moment of truth on Dublin Bridge” (pp. 467-474) and a reply (pp. 475-480).
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