Diagrams
Date
13 December 1667
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 300mm
width (page): 193mm
width (page): 193mm
Subject
Description
The first diagram illustrates a problem posed by Francis Dulaurens (which was communicated to John Wallis by Henry Oldenburg on 10 December 1667). Together with the second diagram, Wallis offers a solution to the problem in his letter to Henry Oldenburg dated 13 December 1667. Wallis was involved in a mathematical controversy with Dulaurens, which A. Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall have called 'more sterile even than usual' (Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, ed. by Hall and Hall, vol. 4, p. xx).
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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