Diagram for doubling the cube
Date
1 October 1661
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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Manuscript page number
p94
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 320mm
width (page): 200mm
width (page): 200mm
Subject
Description
Diagram copied from the Register Book of the Royal Society.
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 4 September 1661, Sir Paul Neile brought in a paper, endorsed by the King, of Thomas Hobbes's proposal of how to double the cube (stated as finding two proportionals between two straight lines given). This is the diagram accompanying Hobbes's proof.
William Brouncker was asked to examine the proof, which he found erroneous, as is registered here.
This entry was copied from RBO/1/100v. There is another copy at RBC/1/104 and another instance of the image at Cl.P/1/11/011.
This volume is another copy of entries of the first two volumes of the Register Book. It was given to Sir Joseph Banks by G. S. Heales Esquire of Doctor's Common on 31 May 1814.
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 4 September 1661, Sir Paul Neile brought in a paper, endorsed by the King, of Thomas Hobbes's proposal of how to double the cube (stated as finding two proportionals between two straight lines given). This is the diagram accompanying Hobbes's proof.
William Brouncker was asked to examine the proof, which he found erroneous, as is registered here.
This entry was copied from RBO/1/100v. There is another copy at RBC/1/104 and another instance of the image at Cl.P/1/11/011.
This volume is another copy of entries of the first two volumes of the Register Book. It was given to Sir Joseph Banks by G. S. Heales Esquire of Doctor's Common on 31 May 1814.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 4 September 1661, ‘A proposition of Mr. Hobbes for finding two mean proportionals between two strait lines given, was delivered to the Society by Sir Paul Neile from the king, indorsed with this majesty’s own hand, and was ordered to be registered; as was afterwards the answer to the problem, by lord viscount Brouncker’ (Birch 1:42). The date on which this was entered in the Register Book is given as 1 October, probably to await Brouncker's refutation.
Related fellows
William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker of Lyons (1620 - 1684, British) , Mathematician
Paul Neile (British) , Astronomer
Paul Neile (British) , Astronomer
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