Mathematical diagrams
Date
1671
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
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Dimensions
height (page): 213mm
width (page): 150mm
width (page): 150mm
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Description
7 geometric diagrams from John Wallis's reply to Thomas Hobbes's criticism of his ideas about infinite quantities.
Illustrations to ‘An answer to four papers of Mr. Hobs, lately published in the months of August, and this present September, 1671’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society vol. 6, issue 76 (18 September 1671). Original letter containing the diagrams was sent by John Wallis to Henry Oldenburg 4 August 1671and can be found in Early Letters of the Royal Society EL/W1/124a. It was heavily revised before publication in Philosophical Transactions.
John Wallis (1616–1703), British mathematician, was a Founding Fellow of the Royal Society, and; Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), British philosopher, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Illustrations to ‘An answer to four papers of Mr. Hobs, lately published in the months of August, and this present September, 1671’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society vol. 6, issue 76 (18 September 1671). Original letter containing the diagrams was sent by John Wallis to Henry Oldenburg 4 August 1671and can be found in Early Letters of the Royal Society EL/W1/124a. It was heavily revised before publication in Philosophical Transactions.
John Wallis (1616–1703), British mathematician, was a Founding Fellow of the Royal Society, and; Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), British philosopher, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Related fellows
John Wallis (1650, British) , Mathematician
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