Diagram
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                                19 June 1669
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                John Wallis (1616 - 1703, British) , Mathematician
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                p3
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                height (page): 310mm
width (page): 197mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (page): 197mm
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                                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
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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