Theory of tides

Date

1666

Creator

Unknown, Engraver

Creator - Organisation

The Royal Society, Publisher

Object type

print
engraving

Article identifier

10.1098/rstl.1665.0108

Material

paper
ink

Technique

engraving

Dimensions

width (paper): 210mm
height (paper): 190mm

Subject

Earth Sciences
> Oceanography

Content object

nature

Description

Five diagrams to John Wallis’s theory on the ebbing and flowing of the sea, showing the motion of the tides.

Plate to An essay of Dr. John Wallis, exhibiting his hypothesis about the flux and reflux of the sea, taken from the consideration of the common center of gravity of the Earth and Moon, published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. 1, issue 16 (6 August 1666) pp. 263-281.

Read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 16 May 1666, Journal Book Original JBO/2/96 and recorded in the Register Book of the Royal Society RBO/3/39 and copied in the Register Book Copy RBC/2/78. The original paper can be found in the Early Letters of the Royal Society EL/W1/18 and copied in to the Letter Book of the Royal Society LBO/1/121 and again in the Letter Book Copy.

John Wallis was an original Fellow of the Royal Society, elected in 1663.

Related fellows

John Wallis (1616 - 1703, British) , Mathematician

Associated place

<The World>
> Europe
> United Kingdom

Theory of tides

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