Diagram of a prism
Date
13 April 1672
After
Ignace-Gaston Pardies (1636 - 1673, French) , Natural philosopher
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Manuscript page number
p218
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Dimensions
height (page): 313mm
width (page): 197mm
width (page): 197mm
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Description
A figure of a prism in a copy of Isaac Newton's letter to Henry Oldenburg dated 12 April 1672 (EL/N1/38/001), written in reply to Ignace-Gaston Pardies's criticism of his 'experimentum crucis'. Pardies's comments and Newton's reply were read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 18 April 1672, and printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 7, no. 82 (June 1672).
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 18 April 1672, ‘Several letters to Mr. Oldenburg were read. [...] A letter from father Pardies the Jesuit, professor of mathematics in the college of Clermont in Paris, dated there April 9, 1672, N.S. containing some objections against Mr. Newton’s theory of light and colours. A letter from Mr. Newton, dated at Cambridge April 13, 1672, containing an answer to the objection of the said Jesuit’ (Birch, 3:43).
Printed in I. Newton, ‘Letter of April 13. 1672. Written to the Publisher, Being an Answer to the Fore-Going Letter of P. Pardies’, Phil. Trans. vol. 7, no. 84 (June 1672), pp. 4091-93.
Printed in I. Newton, ‘Letter of April 13. 1672. Written to the Publisher, Being an Answer to the Fore-Going Letter of P. Pardies’, Phil. Trans. vol. 7, no. 84 (June 1672), pp. 4091-93.
Related fellows
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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