Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16887

    Diagrams

    Date
    17th century - 18th century
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p128
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 186mm
    width (page): 310mm
    Subject
    Description
    This fold-out page with two diagrams appears as table 3 in the mathematical notebook of William Jones. These diagrams relate to the mensuration of solids, or how to find the content of a solid generated by the revolution of any known curve about its axis.

    William Jones amassed what was considered to be the finest mathematical library of his time, which he left to George Parker, the second Earl of Macclesfield, whom he had tutored in mathematics.
    Related fellows
    William Jones (1675 - 2001, British) , Mathematician, Mathematician
    Associated place
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