Charts relating to centrobaric rule
Date
20 September 1673
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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Manuscript page number
vol6 p349
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Dimensions
height (page): 303mm
width (page): 178mm
width (page): 178mm
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Description
Charts and diagrams in a letter from John Wallis, dated at Oxford, to Henry Oldenburg concerning the centrobaric rule of Paul Guldin (1577-1643) and Wallis's own method in his Arithmetica infinitorum (1655).
Paul Guldin’s rule in Centrobaryca (1635-41) states that ‘if any plane figure revolve about an external axis in its plane, the volume of the solid so generated is equal to the product of the area of the figure and the distance travelled by the center of gravity of the figure’ (as explained in The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, vol. 10, p. 180n4).
Copied from LBO/6/301. The figures in the original letter are at EL/W2/12/002.
Paul Guldin’s rule in Centrobaryca (1635-41) states that ‘if any plane figure revolve about an external axis in its plane, the volume of the solid so generated is equal to the product of the area of the figure and the distance travelled by the center of gravity of the figure’ (as explained in The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, vol. 10, p. 180n4).
Copied from LBO/6/301. The figures in the original letter are at EL/W2/12/002.
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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