Diagram concerning cycloids
Date
13 January 1672
After
Ignace-Gaston Pardies (1636 - 1673, French) , Natural philosopher
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Manuscript page number
p132
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 314mm
width (page): 195mm
width (page): 195mm
Subject
Description
Diagram from Pardies's comment on Huygens's discovery that the motion of a weight of a pendulum is equal in the different arcs of a cycloid. Diagram is in Pardies's letter to Henry Oldenburg dated 13 January 1672.
Related fellows
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Associated place