As far as I know, studying quaternions, I found that the right hand rule was before 1871 because it was in that year that the London Mathematical Society accepted J.C. Maxwell's request to adopt the convention that a system is positively oriented if it rotates in the direction of the earth's rotation as seen from the north pole. Of course, reference was made to the right hand rule.
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