Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19012

    Squaring the hyperbola

    Date
    1668
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    The Royal Society, Publisher
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    Dimensions
    width (paper): 214mm
    height (paper): 222mm
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    Three mathematical figures illustrating how to find the quadrature or area of the hyperbola, from a book review discussing James Gergorie’s Vera circuli et hyperbolae quadrature.

    Plate to An account of two books. I Saggi di Naturali Esperienze fatte nell' Academia del Cimento, in Firenze, A. 1667. in fol. II.Vera Circuli et Hyperbolæ Quadratura, in propria sua proportionis specie inventa & demonstrata, à Fac Gregorio Scoto, Patavii, in 4° published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Vol.3 issue 33 (16 Mar 1668) pp.640-644.

    James Gregorie (1638-1675) British mathematician and astronomer, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1668.

    Related fellows
    James Gregorie (1638 - 1675, Scottish) , Mathematician
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