Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15316

    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
    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
    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.
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    Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742, British) , Astronomer
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