Parabolas and paraboloids
Date
1 December 1671
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p3
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 260mm
width (page): 187mm
width (page): 187mm
Subject
Description
Figures in a copy of a letter written by the Jesuit mathematician Jean Bertet (1622-1692) to John Wallis, dated 1 December 1671. Bertet commented on the difference of approaches to quadratures in Opus geometricum quadraturae circuli et sectionum coni (Antwerp: J. and J. Muersios, 1647) by Grégoire de Saint-Vincent (1584-1667), and Wallis's own Arithmetica infinitorum (Oxford: T. Robinson for L. Litchfield, 1656). Wallis replied to Bertet in his letter dated 19 December 1671 (EL/W1/134).
There are copies of these images at LBO/5/056-57.
There are copies of these images at LBO/5/056-57.
Related fellows
John Wallis (1616 - 1703, British) , Mathematician
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