Diagram for doubling the cube
Date
19 March 1662
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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Manuscript page number
p68
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Dimensions
height (page): 330mm
width (page): 210mm
width (page): 210mm
Subject
Description
Diagram relating to Thomas Hobbes's attempt to duplicate the cube, discussed in his 'Meditations upon the Naturall causes'. The prefatory letter to this tract was read by Walter Charleton on 19 March 1662. This was printed in Hobbes's Problemata physica (1662).
Object history
19 March 1662, ‘Dr. Charleton read the epistle of a book of problems dedicated to the king by Mr. Hobbes’ (Birch 1:78).
Diagram printed at Thomas Hobbes, Problemata physica (London: A. Crooke, 1662), fig. 1 after p. 139.
Diagram printed at Thomas Hobbes, Problemata physica (London: A. Crooke, 1662), fig. 1 after p. 139.
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