Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14621

    Diagrams relating to tides

    Date
    7 May 1666
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p308
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 307mm
    width (page): 192mm
    Subject
    Description
    Diagrams for John Wallis's argument that the tides are caused by the Earth's motion in his letter to Henry Oldenburg dated 7 May 1666.

    These figures are pasted in on the page and are written in a hand other than the text surrounding the image.

    A copy of these images can be found at LBC/1/364.
    Related fellows
    John Wallis (1650, British) , Mathematician
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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