Diagrams from tract on gravity
Date
12 November 1674
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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Manuscript page number
p306
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 365mm
width (page): 231mm
width (page): 231mm
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Description
Figures 21, 22 and 23 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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