Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15995

    Diagram

    Date
    29 March 1700
    Creator
    John Wallis (1616 - 1703, British) , Mathematician
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p2
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 357mm
    width (page): 234mm
    Subject
    Description
    Three diagrams which relate to John Wallis's explanation of his method of measuring figures (plain or solid) defined by curves. In Wallis's letter to Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz dated 29 March 1700.

    These diagrams were copied in LBO/12/204 and LBC/12/219-20.
    Related fellows
    John Wallis (1616 - 1703, British) , Mathematician
    Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646 - 1716, German) , Natural philosopher
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