Diagram of the measurement of the size of Earth
Date
1662
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p10
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 297mm
width (page): 190mm
width (page): 190mm
Subject
Description
Diagram in notes taken from a section on measuring the size of the Earth in Giambattista Riccioli's Geographiae et hydrographiae reformatae, nuper recognitae et auctae libri duodecim (1661). At the meeting on 20 August 1662, Henry Oldenburg was asked to study Riccioli's argument for determining the size of the Earth.
Object history
20 August 1662, ‘Mr. Oldenburg to peruse Ricciolus concerning the mensuration of the earth; and to compare what that author hath said of the several methods thereof in his Almagestum with what he hath said in his Geographia and Hydrographia’ (Birch 1:105-06).
G. B. Riccioli, Geographiae et hydrographiae reformatae, nuper recognitae et auctae libri duodecim (Bologna: Heirs of Vittorio Benacci, 1661), book 5: 'De trina quantitate globi terrae aquei', p. 156.
G. B. Riccioli, Geographiae et hydrographiae reformatae, nuper recognitae et auctae libri duodecim (Bologna: Heirs of Vittorio Benacci, 1661), book 5: 'De trina quantitate globi terrae aquei', p. 156.
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