Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15968

    Geometrical diagrams

    Date
    12 February 1667
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p3
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (Page): 213mm
    width (Page): 152mm
    Subject
    Description
    Geometrical sketches on the back of a letter from John Wallis to Henry Oldenburg dated at Oxford, 12 February 1667. In the letter, Wallis discusses sending books, and the controversy between Hevelius and Auzout.
    Related fellows
    John Wallis (1616 - 1703, British) , Mathematician
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Associated place
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