Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14750

    Diagram

    Date
    25 July 1670
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p40
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 310mm
    width (page): 198mm
    Subject
    Description
    Diagram in Renatus Slusius's letter to John Wallis dated 25 July 1670, discussing Giambattista Riccioli's argument in Almagestum novum (Bologna, 1651) against the motion of earth based on the acceleration of falling bodies.

    This image is copied from El/S1/64/001, and copied in LBC/4/052.
    Related fellows
    John Wallis (1650, British) , Mathematician
    Associated place
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