Diagrams concerning the air's resistance to bodies moved in it
Date
17 January 1687
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p71
Dimensions
height (page): 378mm
width (page): 237mm
width (page): 237mm
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 of the Royal Society on 26 January 1687.
These images are copied from RBO/7/051.
Read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 26 January 1687.
These images are copied from RBO/7/051.
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 as figs 3-5 in J. Wallis, ‘Concerning the measure of the air resistance to bodies moved in it’, Phil. Trans. vol. 16, no. 186 (January, February and March, 1687), pp. 269-80.
Printed as figs 3-5 in J. Wallis, ‘Concerning the measure of the air resistance to bodies moved in it’, Phil. Trans. vol. 16, no. 186 (January, February and March, 1687), pp. 269-80.
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