Review of Nicolas Mercator's Logarithmotechnia
Date
8 July 1668
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Unknown, Artist
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p3
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height (page): 300mm
width (page): 193mm
width (page): 193mm
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Description
In a letter dated 8 July 1668 to Henry Oldenburg, John Wallis wrote a review of Nicolas Mercator's Logarithmotechnia (1668) with a view to having it published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Wallis sent another letter on 11 July 1668 with corrections to the account, which was read to the Royal Society on 16 July 1668. It was printed in Philosophical Transactions, vol. 3, no. 38 (August 1668).
Copies of this figure can be found at RBO/4/005 and RBC/3/086.
Copies of this figure can be found at RBO/4/005 and RBC/3/086.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 16 July 1668, ‘Mr. Oldenburg produced a paper in Latin of Dr. Wallis, dated at Oxford July 8, 1668, commending Mr. Nicholas Mercator’s Logarithmo-technia, lately printed, and making the quadrature of the hyperbola universal to all hyperbolas, with a desire, that since by this means the quadrature of the hyperbola was now so complete, as that scarce a better could be expected, and this work perfected by members of the society, this letter might be entered in their Register-Book, the more effectual to declare the invention their’s [sic]. It was read, and ordered to be registered accordingly' (Birch 2:306).
Printed in John Wallis, 'Review (July 1668) of Logarithmotechnia Nicolai Mercatoris, and his own demonstration of infinite series', Phil. Trans. vol. 3, no. 38 (August 1668), pp. 753-64, with woodcut diagrams at p. 756.
Printed in John Wallis, 'Review (July 1668) of Logarithmotechnia Nicolai Mercatoris, and his own demonstration of infinite series', Phil. Trans. vol. 3, no. 38 (August 1668), pp. 753-64, with woodcut diagrams at p. 756.
Related fellows
John Wallis (1616 - 1703, British) , Mathematician
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Nicolas Mercator (1614 - 2001, British) , Mathematician
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Nicolas Mercator (1614 - 2001, British) , Mathematician
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