Diagram concerning the air's resistance to bodies moved in it
Date
17 January 1687
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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Manuscript page number
p49
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Dimensions
height (page): 370mm
width (page): 235mm
width (page): 235mm
Subject
Description
Two diagrams in a copy of a letter from John Wallis to Edmond Halley dated 17 January 1687 at Oxford.
Read at the meeting on 26 January 1687.
Read at the meeting on 26 January 1687.
Transcription
Let such ordinate dh, or (equal to it in the Asymptote) AF, be so divided in LM N etc (by perpendiculare cutting the hyperbola in l, m, n, etc) as that FL, LM, MN etc be as 1/m, 1/mm, 1/m3 etc. That is, so continually decreasing, as that each antecedent be to its consequent, as 1 to 1/m, or as m to 1.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 26 January 1687, ‘A letter of Dr. Wallis was read, concerning the resistance of the medium to bodies projected through it, as likewise to the fall of bodies: and it was ordered to be printed in one of the next Philosophical Transactions’ (Birch 4:521).
Printed in J. Wallis, ‘Concerning the measure of the airs resistance to bodies moved in it’, Phil. Trans. vol. 16, no. 186 (January, February and March, 1687), pp. 269-80.
Printed in J. Wallis, ‘Concerning the measure of the airs resistance to bodies moved in it’, Phil. Trans. vol. 16, no. 186 (January, February and March, 1687), pp. 269-80.
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