Diagrams from tract on gravity
Date
1674
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p211
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 361mm
width (page): 233mm
width (page): 233mm
Subject
Description
Figs 5, 4, 7 and 12 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.
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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