Diagrams
Date
4 August 1671
Creator
John Wallis (1616 - 1703, British) , Mathematician
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Manuscript page number
p1
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Dimensions
height (page): 305mm
width (page): 195mm
width (page): 195mm
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Description
Diagrams from John Wallis's reply to Thomas Hobbes's criticism of his ideas about infinite quantities. This text was enclosed in his letter to Henry Oldenburg dated 4 August 1671, and was printed in a heavily revised form in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 6, no. 75 (1671).
Transcription
An Answer to two papers of Mr Hobs published this present Moneth [sic] of August 1671
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
A revised version of this paper was printed as John Wallis, 'An Answer to Four Papers of Mr Hobs, lately published in the months of August and this present September, 1671', Phil. Trans., vol. 6, no. 75 (1671), pp. 2241-45.
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John Wallis (1616 - 1703, British) , Mathematician
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