Diagram of a prism
Date
3 April 1672
Creator
Ignace-Gaston Pardies (1636 - 1673, French) , Natural philosopher
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Manuscript page number
p3
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Dimensions
height (page): 197mm
width (page): 157mm
width (page): 157mm
Subject
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Description
The figure of a prism in Ignace-Gaston Pardies's criticism of Isaac Newton's 'experimentum crucis', in a letter of 3 April 1672 to Henry Oldenburg. These comments were passed on to Newton, who wrote a reply on 13 April 1672. The letter by Pardies and Newton's reply were read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 18 April 1672, and were printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 7, no. 84 (June 1672).
There are copies of this diagram at LBO/5/205 and LBC/5/226.
There are copies of this diagram at LBO/5/205 and LBC/5/226.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 18 April 1672, ‘Several letters to Mr. Oldenburg were read. [...] A letter from father Pardies the Jesuit, professor of mathematics in the college of Clermont in Paris, dated there April 9, 1672, N.S. containing some objections against Mr. Newton’s theory of light and colours. A letter from Mr. Newton, dated at Cambridge April 13, 1672, containing an answer to the objection of the said Jesuit’ (Birch, 3:43).
Printed as a woodcut figure in I. G. Pardies 'Newton's theory of light and color', Phil. Trans. vol. 7, no. 84 (June 1672), pp. 4087-90 (p. 4088).
Printed as a woodcut figure in I. G. Pardies 'Newton's theory of light and color', Phil. Trans. vol. 7, no. 84 (June 1672), pp. 4087-90 (p. 4088).
Related fellows
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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