Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15979

    Diagram regarding compound motion

    Date
    31 December 1668
    Creator
    John Wallis (1616 - 1703, British) , Mathematician
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p1
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 221mm
    width (page): 160mm
    Subject
    Physics
       > Mechanics
    Description
    John Wallis' explanation of compound motion in his letter to Henry Oldenburg dated 31 December 1668.

    A copy of this figure can be found at LBO/2/362.
    Related fellows
    John Wallis (1616 - 1703, British) , Mathematician
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Associated place
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