Diagram
Date
8 June 1675
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p242
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 313mm
width (page): 195mm
width (page): 195mm
Subject
Description
Diagram relating to James Gregorie's observation on Robert Hooke's Attempt to prove the motion of the Earth from observations (1674) in a letter to Henry Oldenburg dated 8 June 1675, Edinburgh. The letter was read to the Royal Society on 24 June 1675.
This diagram is copied in LBC/7/362. Another version can be found in MS/81/34/019.
This diagram is copied in LBC/7/362. Another version can be found in MS/81/34/019.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 24 June 1675, ‘Mr. Oldenburg communicated a letter to himself from Mr. Gregory, dated at Edinburg, 8th June, 1675, describing a way of his to prove the motion of the earth, different from that of Mr. Hooke published some time before; as also assigning the limits of a biquadratic aequation by the roots of a quadratic aequation’ (Birch 3:225). The text and figures are produced in Birch 3:225-26.
Related fellows
James Gregorie (1638 - 1675, Scottish) , Mathematician
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
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