Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15962

    Diagram

    Date
    19 June 1669
    Creator
    John Wallis (1616 - 1703, British) , Mathematician
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p3
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 310mm
    width (page): 197mm
    Subject
    Description
    Diagram illustrating the relations between different particles moving at different speeds. From John Wallis's letter to Henry Oldenburg dated erroneously 19 June 1665, from Oxford. Wallis was replying to Paul Neile's queries about his theory of motion.
    Related fellows
    John Wallis (1616 - 1703, British) , Mathematician
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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