Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14931

    Diagrams

    Date
    29 March 1700
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    After
    John Wallis (1650, British) , Mathematician
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    LBC
    Manuscript page number
    vol12 p220
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 308mm
    width (page): 179mm
    Subject
    Description
    Two diagrams drawn in the margin of the page. These relate to John Wallis's explanation of his method of measuring figures (plain or solid) defined by curves. Copied from Wallis's letter to Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz dated 29 March 1700 (EL/W2/71/002). These were copied from LBO/12/204.
    Related fellows
    John Wallis (1650, British) , Mathematician
    Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646 - 1716, German) , Natural philosopher
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