Parabolas and paraboloids
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                                19 December 1671
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                p76
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Dimensions
                            
                            
                                height (page): 314mm
width (page): 195mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (page): 195mm
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                                Description
                            
                            
                                Figures in a copy of John Wallis's letter to the Jesuit mathematician Jean Bertet (1622-1692) dated 19 December 1671, Oxford, relating to parabolas and paraboloids. The letter is in response to Bertet's comments on Wallis's Arithmetica infinitorum (Oxford: T. Robinson for L. Litchfield, 1656).
Copied from EL/W1/134/001.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            Copied from EL/W1/134/001.
                                Related fellows
                            
                            
                                John Wallis (1650, British) , Mathematician
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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