Instrument
Date
30 April 1695
Creator
John Wallis (1616 - 1703, British) , Mathematician
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p2
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 307mm
width (page): 189mm
width (page): 189mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Diagram of some kind of instrument on the back of a letter by John Wallis to Richard Waller dated 30 April 1695. The diagram is unrelated to the content of Wallis's letter, which is about his mathematical publications.
Object history
8 May 1695, 'A letter from Dr Wallis was read, with an account of the two volumes of his works now lately finished, Drawn up by himself in order to be inserted in the Transactions' (JBO/9/189).
Related fellows
Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
Associated place