Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15908

    Diagram

    Date
    25 July 1670
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p1
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 292mm
    width (page): 189mm
    Subject
    Description
    Diagram in Renatus Slusius's letter to John Wallis dated 25 July 1670, discussing Giambattista Riccioli's argument in Almagestum novum (Bologna, 1651) against the motion of earth based on the acceleration of falling bodies.

    There are copies of this diagram at LBO/4/040 and LBC/4/052.
    Related fellows
    Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
    John Wallis (1616 - 1703, British) , Mathematician
    Associated place
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