Squaring the hyperbola and calculating high tides
Date
1668
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
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width (paper): 200mm
height (paper): 200mm
height (paper): 200mm
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Description
Five illustrations to issue 34 of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society including mathematical figures and a diagram for calculating high tides.
Figures 1-4 Four mathematical figures demonstrating how to find the quadrature of the hyperbola.
Figure 5. Mathematical diagram for calculating high tide during the phases of the moon.
Inscribed ‘Num 34'.
Figures 1-4 illustrations to The squaring of the hyperbola, by an infinite series of rational numbers, together with its demonstration, by that eminent mathematician, the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Brouncker. published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Vol.3 issue 34 (13 Arp 1668) pp.645-649.
Figure 5 illustration to A letter written to Dr. John Wallis by Mr. Henry Philips, containing his observations about true time of the tides published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Vol.3 issue 34 (13 Apr 1668) pp.656-659. Read to the Royal Society on 9 April 1668, the original paper can be found in the Early Letters of the Royal Society EL/P1/52 and copied in to the Letter Book of the Royal Society LBO/3/145.
Figures 1-4 Four mathematical figures demonstrating how to find the quadrature of the hyperbola.
Figure 5. Mathematical diagram for calculating high tide during the phases of the moon.
Inscribed ‘Num 34'.
Figures 1-4 illustrations to The squaring of the hyperbola, by an infinite series of rational numbers, together with its demonstration, by that eminent mathematician, the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Brouncker. published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Vol.3 issue 34 (13 Arp 1668) pp.645-649.
Figure 5 illustration to A letter written to Dr. John Wallis by Mr. Henry Philips, containing his observations about true time of the tides published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Vol.3 issue 34 (13 Apr 1668) pp.656-659. Read to the Royal Society on 9 April 1668, the original paper can be found in the Early Letters of the Royal Society EL/P1/52 and copied in to the Letter Book of the Royal Society LBO/3/145.
Related fellows
William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker of Lyons (1620 - 1684, British) , Mathematician
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