Diagram
Date
ca. 31 December 1669
Creator
John William Wallis (1740, British) , Mathematician
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p223a
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 147mm
width (page): 135mm
width (page): 135mm
Subject
Description
Diagram from John Wallis's letter to Henry Oldenburg refuting Thomas Hobbes's method of squaring the circle (as printed in Hobbes, Quadratura circuli, cubatio sphaerae etc. (London: A. Crooke, 1669)). Wallis circulated his printed refutation, Thomae Hobbes Quadratura circuli (secundo edita) denuo refuata (Oxford: L. Lichfield for O. Pullein, 1669), which was presented to the Royal Society on 9 January 1670.
This diagram is copied in LBC/3/269.
This diagram is copied in LBC/3/269.
Object history
As indicated in the letter sent from Wallis to Oldenburg on 9 January 1670, copies of John Wallis, Thomae Hobbes Quadratura circuli (secundo edita) denuo refuata (Oxford: L. Lichfield for O. Pullein, 1669) sent earlier to Oldenburg did not include this diagram.
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 13 January 1670, ‘There were presented from Dr. Wallis two books published by him, one intitled, Mechanica, sive de motu tractatus geometricus; pars prima: London 1670 in 4to; the other intitled, Thomae Hobbes Quadratura circuli secundo edita denuo refutata: printed at Oxford in 1669’ (Birch 2:415).
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 13 January 1670, ‘There were presented from Dr. Wallis two books published by him, one intitled, Mechanica, sive de motu tractatus geometricus; pars prima: London 1670 in 4to; the other intitled, Thomae Hobbes Quadratura circuli secundo edita denuo refutata: printed at Oxford in 1669’ (Birch 2:415).
Related fellows
John Wallis (1650, British) , Mathematician
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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