Diagram regarding motion
Date
15 November 1670
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 310mm
width (page): 200mm
width (page): 200mm
Subject
Description
A figure relating to the controversy between Honorato Fabri and Gianbattista Borrelli as to whether two separate motions could be compounded into one. This was discussed by John Wallis in a letter to Henry Oldenburg dated 15 November 1670, which was read to the Royal Society on 24 November 1670.
Copies of this figure can be found in LBO/4/117 and LBC/4/161.
Copies of this figure can be found in LBO/4/117 and LBC/4/161.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 24 November 1670, ‘There was read a letter from Dr. Wallis to Mr. Oldenburg, dated at Oxford Nov. 15, 1670, concerning a controversy between Honorato Fabri and John Baptista Borelli; whether a stone thrown horizontally will in the same time come to the horizontal plane, as if without the motion of projection it had fallen directly down in the perpendicular. This Fabri denied, alledging an experiment of Mersennus to that purpose, and affirming the motion of descent in the curve to be by the obliquity of the motion hindered, as in sloping planes’ (Birch 2:454).
Related fellows
John Wallis (1616 - 1703, British) , Mathematician
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent