Diagrams of cycloids
Date
15 July 1673
Creator
John Wallis (1616 - 1703, British) , Mathematician
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Manuscript page number
p1
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Dimensions
height (page): 312mm
width (page): 202mm
width (page): 202mm
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Description
Diagrams of 'imperfect' cycloids by John Wallis. In response to Francis Jessop's comments on his theory of tides, Wallis explained that the imperfect cycloid did not have its base ba as the perpendicular to the curve ac (as Jessop supposed and as shown in the top diagram), but that the base ba was a tangent to the curve ac and perpendicular to it at ap (as in the bottom figure). Wallis originally made his comments in the margin of Jessop's letter dated 25 June 1673 and addressed to Martin Lister, who had forwarded it to Henry Oldenburg so that Wallis could comment on it.
Copies can be found at LBO/6/190 and LBC/6/219. For Jessop's diagrams, see EL/I1/165/001.
Francis Jessop (1638-91) was a freeman of the Cutler's Company of Sheffield, and a close friend of John Ray (Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, ed. by Hall and Hall, vol. 10, p. 71n).
Copies can be found at LBO/6/190 and LBC/6/219. For Jessop's diagrams, see EL/I1/165/001.
Francis Jessop (1638-91) was a freeman of the Cutler's Company of Sheffield, and a close friend of John Ray (Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, ed. by Hall and Hall, vol. 10, p. 71n).
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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