Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14782

    Parabolas and paraboloids

    Date
    1 December 1671
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p56
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 312mm
    width (page): 195mm
    Subject
    Description
    Figures in a copy of a letter written by the Jesuit mathematician Jean Bertet (1622-1692) to John Wallis dated 1 December 1671. Bertet commented on the difference of approaches to quadratures in Grégoire de Saint-Vincent (1584-1667), Opus geometricum quadraturae circuli et sectionum coni (Antwerp: J. and J. Muersios, 1647) and John Wallis, Arithmetica infinitorum (Oxford: T. Robinson for L. Litchfield, 1656). Wallis replied to Bertet in a letter dated 19 December 1671 (EL/W1/134).

    This image is copied from EL/B2/14/003.
    Related fellows
    John Wallis (1650, British) , Mathematician
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