Parabolas and paraboloids
Date
19 December 1671
Creator
John Wallis (1616 - 1703, British) , Mathematician
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p2
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height (page): 315mm
width (page): 195mm
width (page): 195mm
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Description
Figures in John Wallis's letter to the Jesuit mathematician Jean Bertet (1622-1692) dated 19 December 1671, Oxford, relating to parabolas and paraboloids. The letter is in response to Bertet's comments on Wallis's Arithmetica infinitorum (Oxford: T. Robinson for L. Litchfield, 1656).
The figures are copied in LBO/5/077-78.
The figures are copied in LBO/5/077-78.
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John Wallis (1616 - 1703, British) , Mathematician
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