Diagrams from tract on gravity
Date
12 November 1674
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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Manuscript page number
p295
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 365mm
width (page): 231mm
width (page): 231mm
Subject
Description
Figures 5 and 4 in John Wallis's Discourse on gravity and gravitation grounded on experimental observations, presented to the Royal Society on 12 November 1674, and published in 1675.
This tract was copied from RBO/4/204-32.
This tract was copied from RBO/4/204-32.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 12 November 1674, ‘Dr. Wallis presented them with, and read before them, a discourse of gravity and gravitation grounded on experimental observations, and having a reference to two books not long before published by an anonymous author, the one intitled an Essay concerning Gravitation or Non-Gravitation of Fluids; the other, Difficiles Nugae: or some Observations touching the Toricellian Experiments, etc. [both by Sir Matthew Hale]. The doctor was thanked for this discourse, which was ordered to be entered into the Register-book’ (Birch 3:143).
Printed as John Wallis, A discourse of gravity and gravitation grounded on experimental observations (London: John Martyn, 1675), with a plate of figures inserted at the front.
Printed as John Wallis, A discourse of gravity and gravitation grounded on experimental observations (London: John Martyn, 1675), with a plate of figures inserted at the front.
Related fellows
John Wallis (1650, British) , Mathematician
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