On cycloids
Date
1695
Creator
Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742, British) , Astronomer
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p4
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 303mm
width (page): 183mm
width (page): 183mm
Subject
Description
This treatise on cycloids by Halley was printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, but with a more complex diagram. The drawings here might have been sketches, or partial solutions to the problem.
Transcription
A paper of the cycloid by Mr. Halley
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
Edmond Halley, 'I. Propositio Generalis Arearum dimensionem exhibens in universo illo Curvarum Genere quae revolutione aequabili Circuli super Basin quamvis vel rectilineam vel Cricularem desoribi possint, etc', Phil. Trans., vol. 19, no. 218 (November and December 1695), pp. 125-28.
Related fellows
Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742, British) , Astronomer
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