Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14897

    Diagram relating to tides

    Date
    7 May 1666
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    LBC
    Manuscript page number
    vol1 p364
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 298mm
    width (page): 180mm
    Subject
    Description
    Diagrams for John Wallis's argument that the tides are caused by the Earth's motion, in his letter to Henry Oldenburg dated 7 May 1666.

    These diagrams are copied from LBO/1/308.
    Related fellows
    John Wallis (1650, British) , Mathematician
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Associated place
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