Diagram relating to a theory of tides
Date
2 June 1666
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
vol1 p391
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 298mm
width (page): 180mm
width (page): 180mm
Subject
Description
This figure relates to John Wallis's theory of tides, explained in his letter to Henry Oldenburg dated 2 June 1666. This was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 20 June 1666, and printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 1, no. 16 (1666).
This figure was copied from LBO/1/331a.
This figure was copied from LBO/1/331a.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 20 June 1666, ‘Two letters of Dr. Wallis, one dated at Oxford June 2, 1666, and the other June 8, were read, containing his answers to several objections made by some of the members at their late meeting of May 23, upon his hypothesis of tides. He being now come to London, was present at this meeting, and there farther declaring his thoughts by word of mouth concerning some particulars of this subject, received the public thanks of the Society, who ordered, that he should be assisted for the farther evidencing of this subject, both with the relations contained in their register-books about the current of the tides in the open sea, and with astronomical observations, such as he had suggested in his letters above-mentioned’ (Birch 2:98).
Figs 1-4 in John Wallis (communicated by Boyle), 'An essay, exhibiting his hypothesis about the flux and reflux of the sea...', Phil. Trans. vol. 1, no. 16 (August 1666), pp. 263-28.
Figs 1-4 in John Wallis (communicated by Boyle), 'An essay, exhibiting his hypothesis about the flux and reflux of the sea...', Phil. Trans. vol. 1, no. 16 (August 1666), pp. 263-28.
Related fellows
John Wallis (1650, British) , Mathematician
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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