Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14792

    Diagram concerning cycloids

    Date
    13 January 1672
    After
    Ignace-Gaston Pardies (1636 - 1673, French) , Natural philosopher
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p132
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 314mm
    width (page): 195mm
    Subject
    Physics
       > Mechanics
    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
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          > France
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