Diagram
Date
9 January 1670
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
vol3 p269
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 300mm
width (page): 179mm
width (page): 179mm
Description
Diagram from John Wallis's letter to Henry Oldenburg refuting Thomas Hobbes's method of squaring the circle (as printed in Hobbes, Quadratura circuli, cubatio sphaerae etc. (London: A. Crooke, 1669)). Wallis circulated his printed refutation, Thomae Hobbes Quadratura circuli (secundo edita) denuo refuata (Oxford: L. Lichfield for O. Pullein, 1669), which was presented to the Royal Society on 9 January 1670.
This is a copy of LBO/3/223a.
This is a copy of LBO/3/223a.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 13 January 1670, ‘There were presented from Dr. Wallis two books published by him, one intitled, Mechanica, sive de motu tractatus geometricus; pars prima: London 1670 in 4to; the other intitled, Thomae Hobbes Quadratura circuli secundo edita denuo refutata: printed at Oxford in 1669’ (Birch 2:415).
Related fellows
John Wallis (1650, British) , Mathematician
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent