1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 14… (1911)
“ If the axes of x, y, z are a right-handed system, we have Stokes’s theorem in the form where the integral on the left is taken round the curve s in the chosen sense. When the axes are left-handed, we may either reverse the sense of l, m, n and maintain the formula, or retain the sense of l, m, n and change the sign of the right-hand member of the equation. For the validity of the theorems of Green and Stokes it is in general necessary that the functions involved should satisfy certain conditions of continuity. ”
