Diagram
Date
17 March 1697
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 222mm
width (page): 172mm
width (page): 172mm
Subject
Description
Diagram in a paper by David Gregory on the difference in time of a heavy body falling through a cord or the arc of a cycloid, presented on 17 March 1697 and printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 19, no. 225 (February 1697).
Transcription
De ratione temporis quo brave labitur per rectam data duo puncta conjungentem, ad tempus brevissimum quo, vi gravitatis, transit ab Horum Uno ad alterum per arcum cycloidis’
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
17 March 1697, 'There was a paper of Dr Gregorys read about the difference of time of a heavy bodys falling through a cord or the arch of a cycloid, it was order'd to be published in the next transaction' (JBO/10/19).
D. Gregory, ‘De ratione temporis quo brave labitur per rectam data duo puncta conjungentem, ad tempus brevissimum quo, vi gravitatis, transit ab Horum Uno ad alterum per arcum cycloidis’, Phil. Trans., vol. 19, no. 225 (February 1697), 424-25 (p. 424 (woodcut)).
D. Gregory, ‘De ratione temporis quo brave labitur per rectam data duo puncta conjungentem, ad tempus brevissimum quo, vi gravitatis, transit ab Horum Uno ad alterum per arcum cycloidis’, Phil. Trans., vol. 19, no. 225 (February 1697), 424-25 (p. 424 (woodcut)).
Related fellows
David Gregory (1659 - 1708, British) , Astronomer, Astronomer
Associated place