Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19056

    Inscription and cycloids

    Date
    1695
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    The Royal Society, Publisher
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    Four figures to issue 217 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

    Figure to page 88. Specimen of an inscription from a sepulchre, burial chamber, in an unidentified script. Found at the Temple of Bal, Palmyra (Tadmor), Syria.

    Illustration to A Relation of a Voyage from Aleppo to Palmyra in Syria; sent by the Reverend Mr. William Halifax to Dr. Edw Bernard (late) Savilian Professor of Astronomy in Oxford, and by him communicated to Dr. Thomas Smith, Reg. Soc. S. published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.19, issue 217 (Oct 1695) pp.83-110.

    Fig. 1-3 Mathematical figures to An Extract of a Letter from the Reverend Dr. John Wallis to Richard Waller, Esq; Secretary of the Royal Society, concerning the Spaces in the Cycloid, which are perfectly Quadrable. published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.19, issue 217 (Oct 1695) pp.111-113. A copy can be found in the Letter Book of the Royal Society, LBO/12/9.

    Edward Bernard (1638-1697) British clergyman, scholar and Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1673.

    Thomas Smith (1638-1710) British clergyman, scholar and antiquarian, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1677.

    John Wallis (1616–1703), British mathematician, was a Founding Fellow of the Royal Society.

    Richard Waller (c.1646-1715) British naturalist, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1681.


    Thomas Molyneux (1661-1733) Irish physician, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1686.
    Related fellows
    Edward Bernard (1638 - 1697, British English) , Clergyman
    Thomas Smith (1638 - 1710, British) , Clergyman
    John Wallis (1616 - 1703, British) , Mathematician
    Richard Waller (1641 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
    Associated place
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       > Asia
          > Syria
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
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