Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15554

    Diagram regarding the synchronism of vibrations in a cycloid

    Date
    23 June 1673
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p3
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 150mm
    width (page): 197mm
    Subject
    Description
    Diagram of William Brouncker's demonstration of the synchronism of vibrations in a cycloid (in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 8, no. 94 (1673), p. 6032, where the author is only identified as 'an author of quality'). It was transmitted to Huygens by Oldenburg in a letter dated 27 June 1673 (EL/O2/120/004). Brouncker mentions this paper in his letter to Oldenburg, 23 June 1673.

    There are further copies at LBO/6/164 and LBC/6/188.
    Related fellows
    William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker of Lyons (1620 - 1684, British) , Mathematician
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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